Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interior Ministry handed the message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has long been seeking information on several thousand Italian prisoners of war missing in Russia. The government made no comment, but officials said they considered the message authentic...
Married. Vera Franceschi, 27, petite (about 5 ft.) San Francisco-born concert pianist; and Daniele Barioni, 27, Italian tenor who made his Metropolitan Opera debut last year in Tosca on a few hours' notice; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Died. Gianni Caproni, Count of Taliedo, 71, Italian aviation pioneer, whose first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids...
...enabled the ancient Romans to erect structures that surpassed in grandiosity even the marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy-and in most of Europe, where steel is scarce and expensive-concrete remains one of the cheapest and best available building materials. The Italian who, above all others, has mastered concrete and raised it to a level where it can compete with marble and granite is not an architect (though he holds honorary degrees as such) but an engineer. He is restless, wrinkled, grey Pier Luigi Nervi, 66, whose soaring exhibition halls, breath-taking...
Delight in the Ruins. Born in the Italian Alps, Nervi got his engineering degree from Bologna, served as a lieutenant in the World War I Italian Corps of Engineers. Out of the army, he worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast...