Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British of building a bomber base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin Chinese, likes shooting and tennis, sometimes takes a whack at cricket...
...Boom Backstop. Within a few years, Venezuela will be using part of its ore to make steel at home. An Italian combine is under contract with the Venezuelan government to build a $200 million, 421,500-ton-a-year steel mill near the mouth of the Caroni. Last week, a few miles up the Caroni from the mill-to-be, the workmen, trucks and power shovels of a French construction firm were clearing a site for a government-owned hydroelectric plant that will provide 143,000 kw. for steelmaking, plus another 157,000 for the region's future industrial...
Much of the credit goes to Colgate Salisbury who played the title role of the father. Unlike most of the cast, Salisbury understood that a simple Italian peasant need not be stupid to be rustic. Tom Gervasi, as his son, was properly whining and greedy as the boy who gave away a man's life for a gold watch. Steve Aaron gave a surprisingly believable rendition of the Padre who advises Falcone that God alone should punish...
...Rhode Island's three-term Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts was surprisingly edged out by Christopher Del Sesto, 49, an Italian-American in a state where voters of Italian descent pack a ballot-box wallop. It was a conditional victory, since Del Sesto, himself a former Democrat and a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Antitrust Division, won by a meager 190 votes when the voting-machine score was added up. Still to be counted: 11,000 absentee ballots...
...with Dictator Mussolini after he took over in 1922, became head of the joint chiefs of staff in 1925, resigned the post in disgrace (1940) after Italy's abortive Albanian campaign, later was called out of retirement to replace Mussolini (July 25, 1943) as head of the shaky Italian government, signed the armistice in September, nine months later dropped out of sight when his government collapsed and was re-formed by a National Liberation Committee...