Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again have a new Italian Pope, and 13 new Italian cardinals out of 23. I have nothing against the Italians, but I am against monopolies...
Into the Camp. In the face of the new threat by the rebels, Batista's regime showed few signs of cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other...
Divorced. By Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Maria Pierangeli), 26, Italian-born cinemactress: Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 30, Brooklyn-born crooning cinemactor; after four years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...responsible for last week's court action is an Italian violin connoisseur named Giovanni Iviglia. Twenty years ago, an exhibition of old-master violins was held in Cremona, and of the 2,000 which Expert Iviglia now says were offered from all parts of the world, only 40 proved to be genuine. Believing that the center of a fake violin trade was Switzerland, Iviglia, with the blessings of the Italian government, set up an "Advisory Bureau for Purchasers and Owners of Italian String Instruments" in Zurich...
...contention of Italian Novelist Carlo Coccioli that both events-Passion and Passion play-had an identical reality for the witnesses. In the modern world, argues Coccioli, an Oberammergau can only be a charade; since the Middle Ages, it is only in a place like Indian Mexico, with its hallucinatory sense of time, where past and present are meaningless, that the supernatural can be accepted as reality and the actual world as an illusion...