Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every election since World War II, Sardinians had given a steadily increasing share of their votes to Communist candidates. Last week, a little better off-thanks to the $200 million which Italian governments have pumped into Sardinia's poverty-stricken economy in the past four years (TIME, May 21, 1956)-the islanders reversed their Communist trend (the Red vote fell off from 22.3% to 17.5%). The dominant Christian Democrats increased their vote (from 41% to 41.8%). But the real surprise of the election was the showing made on his first campaign in Sardinia by ebullient, 72-year-old Achille...
Spaghetti & Soccer. A self-made shipping tycoon (estimated worth: $100 million), blue-eyed Achille Lauro first burst into Italian politics in 1952 when he was elected mayor of Naples. Since then he has spent an estimated $4,000,000 of his own money and run up the biggest civic debt in Italian history ($160 million), giving his fellow townsmen spaghetti, circuses, repaved streets, and a first-class soccer team. (Mayor Lauro cheerfully forked over $200,000 to sign up one Swedish soccer star for Naples.) The Neapolitan crowds love him; opposition politicians consider him a gold-plated clown...
...Monarchist in name only-the autographed portrait of King Umberto II that graced his desk has recently disappeared -Lauro has no illusions about restoring the House of Savoy. His more modest goal is to build the sagging Italian right into a political force strong enough to help govern Italy in coalition with the Christian Democrats...
...while last week, sleek and shrewd Amintore Fanfani, organizational boss of the Christian Democratic Party, tried to establish an Italian government. When Fanfani failed, Italy's ambitious President Giovanni Gronchi pulled a surprise. He renamed as Premier rotund, outspoken Adone Zoli, who tried and failed last month to form a government. Blandly reminding one and all that he had never accepted Zoli's resignation, the President informed Zoli that he is thus still Premier. Question: Will the Italian Chamber of Deputies think...
...hubby Frank Sinatra is now in its fourth fun-packed year, was all set to make it illegal. In Mexico, apparently serious this time about shedding Frankie-she started through the Reno mill three years ago, then lost interest-Ava filed again for divorce. Current object of her defection: Italian Comedian Walter Chiari, who has replaced Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, and other lesser beefcake, as Ava's great and good friend...