Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, says Italian Designer Gio Ponti, for the modern male to rescue the double bed from the dainty clutch of the modern female. The ordinary double bed with its feminine frills not only sins against good taste, he argues, but is no place where a man can be sick with comfort or die with majesty. Agush with strong and sensible views on everything from bathroom faucets to skyscraper spires, Milan's Ponti exuberantly looks forward to the day when walls twist like trees and look like vegetables. See ART, The Pleasures of Ponti...
...inheritance case when suddenly a 60-ft. saucer appeared before him. The disk was about 18 ft. high, and rested on a pawnshop-type landing gear of three balls. Two 6-ft.-tall men got out of the saucer, and Guimaraes tried small talk in English, French. Spanish and Italian, but got no answer. Then the strangers started to transmit on the professor's wave length. "They were communicating with me telepathically," he explains. ''They were inviting me aboard...
Massachusetts' shock-haired Senator Jack Kennedy, 40, ambled up to Cinemactress Sophia Loren at a party thrown in her honor at the Italian embassy in Washington, shook hands gingerly, then skittered bashfully out of camera range. Asked Sophia, as she was crowded by less diffident legislators: "If that shy young man didn't want his picture taken with me, then why did he come here...
After almost four months and nearly a million words of testimony from 381 witnesses, Italy's famed Dongo trial came to a melancholy stop. The government had been working hard to show that the Italian Communist Party had shot and knifed its way into illicit control of "the gold of Dongo"-the $90 million treasure that Mussolini was carrying at the time of his capture and killing by partisans in April 1945 (TIME, June 24). Last week, with about 30 more witnesses to be heard from, one of the seven blue-ribbon jurors. 62-year-old Silvio Aldrighetti...
Born. To Marisa Pavan, 25, actress of screen (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) and TV (Antigone, Dominique), twin sister of Italian-born Cinemactress Pier Angeli, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 47, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): a son, their first child, his second; in Santa Monica. Name: Jean Claude. Weight...