Word: genoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight days earlier the fast and fancy three-year-old Andrea Doria- had departed her home port of Genoa and headed for Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar. Leaving the Rock, the 29,000-ton liner raced westward on her 101st Atlantic crossing. For Captain Piero Calamai and his crew it wa's; routine. For the businessmen, the priests and nuns returning from Rome, the Italian-Americans ending old-country visits, the immigrants bound for the golden shore, the crossing was an event...
...like a ball and the compass went to 180° and finally 220°. We gradually pulled up until we were actually sailing away from Bermuda." All around Finisterre, the same thing was happening to other competitors, and canvas was popping on most boats. Finisterre's No. 2 Genoa blew out, but the crew replaced it and bore down while bigger yachts were reefing cautiously. Said Mitchell proudly: "After the big squall, we stayed on the port tack and just drove hell out of her . . . Between noon Monday and noon Tuesday we exceeded 200 miles while boats twice...
...Lesser Reward. Unfortunately the Christian Democratic victory did not bring equivalent rewards. Deprived of the electoral bonus which in 1951 gave two-thirds of the seats to the party polling the most votes, the Christian Democrats found themselves in many cities polling more votes but losing seats. In Turin, Genoa, Venice, Pisa and Rome, the Chris tian Democrats lost their legislative majority, and stood in need of allies. to govern. In Florence Mayor Giorgio La Pira, Florence's busy little friend of the poor, polled more votes than any mayor ever had, but ended with only 25 city council...
Last week in Genoa some 2,000 visitors passed through the austere Villa Doria, examining and occasionally touching 189 graceful and lustrous stringed instruments, including one cello, 16 violas, 171 violins. The oldest was a small, ornamented Gasparo da Salo, dated 1609; the most famous was Paganini's own powerful Guarneri del Gesu, given to him (by a wealthy Leghorn merchant) on the condition that nobody else would ever perform on it; the most prevalent were modern models patterned closely after Stradivari designs. Because of their popularity among wealthy foreign fiddlers, there were no Strads at all available...
...Christian Democrats wrested such big cities as Turin, Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Florence from the Communists with the help of a tricky electoral law-since repealed-which awarded two-thirds of the seats in a city government to the party polling the most votes. This time, proportional representation rules in all cities and large towns, and Christian Democrats may find themselves without a governing majority even in towns where they top the popular poll...