Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with similar equanimity, Lawyer Zoli, 69, took on an assignment which, sooner or later, would almost certainly cost him a few teeth politically. When courtly Antonio Segni resigned as Italy's Premier two weeks ago, the four-party coalition that has dominated Italian politics since 1953 was utterly shattered. The only alternative to the coalition, pending next spring's general elections, was what Italians call a "single color" government-an all-Christian Democratic Cabinet which, since it would lack an assured majority in the Chamber of Deputies, could probably only survive by ducking controversial issues...
Both hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...
When Wartime Partisan Leader Aldo Fascetti was named by the Italian government last summer to boss the state holding company that runs about one-quarter of Italy's industry, private businessmen saw Red. Fascetti, 56, was an outspoken left-winger, and no sooner did he take over the huge Istituto per la Recostruzione Industriale (assets: $3 billion), than he-ordered "an aggressive advance in every sector of the economy." Businessmen feared that I.R.I., which has holdings in 86 companies and dominates most of them, would socialize even more of the Italian economy. Last week, in announcing I.R.I...
Sense of Place. Louise's ride on the carrousel was nearly over. Her oldest son. Willie, was killed in a riding accident at his French chateau. Daughter Eva married an Italian count who proved to be a blackmailer. And on a summer evening in 1902, Louise sat by John Mackay's bedside and watched as he died of pneumonia...
Minister of Internal Affairs. In Madison, Wis., Dr. Leonard W. Moss of Wayne University told the Anthropological Society that men in the Italian town of Bagnoli del Trigno, after listening to the adventures of countrymen returning from working in the U.S., now call their wives "La Bossa...