Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continent repercussions were even more violent. Macmillan's misadventure, said Rome's Il Messaggero, proved that "it is impossible to come to an understanding with Soviet leaders of Khrushchev's type." The Adenauer and De Gaulle governments, leary about the trip in the first place, were distressed by the harshness of Khrushchev's action...
...highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused the lights...
...describe the tall (5 ft. 11 in.) doe-eyed beauty who speaks five languages, rides, sings, plays the guitar, walks regally erect and smiles like a queen. "A charming princess," raved the weekly Séttimo Giorno. "One of the loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut hair, when you call 'Ella' the echo comes back 'bella...
Died. Giuseppe Bottai, 63, high-level factotum for Il Duce's regime, early Fascist organizer; after long illness; in Rome. Bottai commanded 8,000 blackshirted militia in the 1922 march on Rome that seized power from the king. For his friend Benito, he was Minister of National Education. Governor of Rome, Civil Governor of Addis Ababa, Minister of Corporations. When things looked black in 1943, Bottai discreetly disappeared, later turned up in the French Foreign Legion...
...cagey politician who is given to spouting fractured French ("La ou il y a de I'homme, il y a de I'hommerie"), and making resounding promises ("The thirst for a better state itches us"), the abbé likes to foretell "tomorrows that sing...