Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanfani is the youngest Italian Premier to take office since Mussolini in 1922. A teen-ager when Fascism began, he saw the corporate state as the ideal, and in what he calls a "temporary aberration" turned to Fascism. "Some day," he once wrote, "the European continent will be organized into a vast supranational area guided by Italy and Germany. Those areas will take authoritarian governments and synchronize their constitutions with Fascist principles...
...this year's festival was the 17-man International Youth Band, recruited and trained by High School Music Director Marshall Brown, whose Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School Band was a Newport hit last year (TIME, July 15, 1957). Assigned to look for one young musician to represent each European country, Brown took a year's leave from his teaching job, toured Europe listening to nearly 700 musicians...
Jimmy Giuffre's The Pentatonic Man. In last week's concert, the band started stiffly, and the rhythm section never got completely untracked; but by the time they closed the set, the European cats were playing with the cohesive drive of a bunch of much-practiced pros...
Thomas Hunt Morgan's work won a Nobel Prize, and his laboratory was probably the first in the U.S. to which European scientists and students made serious pilgrimages. Genetic knowledge dredged out of fruit flies had an enormous effect on plant and animal breeding. Geneticists believe that a great bronze statue of a Drosophila. suitably mutated, should be erected in some such place as Iowa, where farm production has been greatly expanded by genetically sophisticated corn...
...offshoots of the world economic boom is an international boom in real estate. From Rhodesia to Rochester, land shoppers are clamoring for attractive parcels of property. Only ten years ago Switzerland was the only European country in which a foreign broker could easily do business in real estate; today, firmer currencies have made the task much easier -and tremendously profitable. The firm that stands to benefit most by the boom is Manhattan's Previews, Inc., the world's only international clearinghouse for real estate, and an experienced dealer in both the exotic and the practical...