Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-to-do landowners, Segni became a professor of civil law, no sooner swung into politics in his 30s than he swung right out again in the face of Italian Fascism. He left his law books once more to help found the Christian Democrat Party in the 1940s, and since 1944 has regularly held Cabinet posts in the government. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1950, he drafted the land-reform bills that helped turn back Italy's rising Communist tide, ultimately freed nearly 2,000,000 acres of privately owned land for distribution among 150,000 peasants...
...With Italian-American relations solid and satisfactory, Premier Segni actually had no great and pressing problems to hash over with President Eisenhower (the talks, said the communique, were held "in a spirit of close friendship"); he got a chance before the National Press Club to express his hope that Italy would play a role in a future summit meeting, and to warn the U.S. against reckless disarmament merely because of Khrushchev's "handshake and a few smiles...
Bernard Berenson, the most cultivated of men and renowned of art historians, died yesterday after a long illness. "B.B.", as his many friends called him, classified the vast, disorganized material of Florentine drawing and Italian Renaissance painting; he was the Linnaeus of art history...
...PASSENGER LINERS will be built by the Italian Line for New York-Mediterranean service. Two 35,000-ton luxury ships will each have accommodations for 1,600 passengers, cruise at 26.5 knots to Italy in seven days, one day faster than the line's 33,500-ton Leonardo da Vinci, which will be put into service next summer on the transatlantic...
...Wingate, as a guerrilla specialist, was ordered to Ethiopia, and he embraced that nation and its exiled Emperor Haile Selassie as fiercely as he had Zionism. He led his small Gideon force of British troops and Ethiopian irregulars in a brilliant campaign against a large but dispirited Italian army. Wearing shorts, and mounted on a white horse, Wingate proudly escorted Haile...