Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knock at the door. From their haven just across the border, Carmelo and Emil set up an overland express, guiding Yugoslavs to freedom. Before the year was out, Tito's agents had jailed Carmelo's mother and sister back home, and shot Emil dead in Italian territory. Three times they tried to kill Carmelo in the streets of Trieste, and failed...
After World War II, the Italian government posted 20-ft. watchtowers with searchlights along the watery plains of the Po River delta, set up a special new intelligence corps and dispatched motorized patrols to strategic spots in the hills of central Italy. The time had come, said the government, to break up the booming $8,000,000-a-year black market in Etruscan art objects. Beneath hill and plain lay buried treasure-the vases, statues and coins that the energetic Etruscans had placed in the tombs 25 centuries ago. This was part of the "national patrimony," said the government...
Money-losing (annual deficits more than $1,000,000) L'Unità's financial crisis was brought on by sharp cutbacks in its subsidies from Moscow and from the financially-pressed Italian Communist Party. But its most serious problem is shriveling circulation, now well below 300,000 from a 1953 peak of 1,574,000. So low has stodgy, 33-year-old L'Unità sunk in the eyes of its own staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks...
NUCLEAR-POWER race will be greatly influenced by big 150,000 kw. reactor in southern Italy. World Bank, which is expected to help finance Italian project, will ask seven internationally known atom experts to choose best system. Result may largely decide whether other countries will buy Britain's gas-cooled natural-uranium reactors or liquid-cooled enriched-uranium plants, which the U.S. is anxious to export...
Angelo (Raf Vallone) is a lusty Italian peasant, but no cad; for him, sex is a virtually impersonal bodily function, and he is delighted to find himself in the presence of three attractive targets: Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have...