Word: flaminia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press club paid for the chariots, the costumes and the winners' purses. Each chariot was also sponsored by a district of Rome, which furnished the driver, the horses and the cheering section. Young Carlo Gigli, representing the middle-class Flaminia district, was in the driver's stand of the blue-and-white chariot of the Christian Democratic newspaper La Liberta. Handling the whip of the bright red chariot sponsored by the Communist L'Unitá and the poverty-ridden San Lorenzo district was oldtimer Amedeo Valentini, who drove a chariot in the movie Ben Hur 25 years...