Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...culture quiz. The results were disastrous. The beauties could not identify Hamlet, Lucrezia Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent Osservatore Romano editorialized: "The attempt to ennoble the beauty contest, to demonstrate that these feminine fairs are different from horse shows by virtue of God's gift of intelligence, was shipwrecked...
...little saint," said Vittorio Francescone over and over again last week. But the fact remained that the 16-year-old boy's behavior had seemed sufficiently saintly to land him on the front pages of the Italian press-and in trouble...
Rayon & Beans. Exporter Gentili, who also dabbles in politics (he ran unsuccessfully for the Italian Senate in 1948 and 1953), was approached in 1952 by Communist Leader Spartaco Muratori, then bossing a chain of party-owned firms that handle more than half of Italy's $123 million yearly East-West trade. Muratori made a deal with Gentili to take over the party's China trade. Two months later Peking gave Gentili an order for 7,000 cases of rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made...
Ever since, business has been booming, though Gentili has been blacklisted by the U.S., and the Italian government refuses to grant him import or export licenses. He has built a fortune by arranging deals between China and Italian suppliers. Through Gentili they ship textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and other nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party...
...fertilizer, rayon and other nonstrategic items. Regally received by Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, Gentili himself won agreements for the export of strategic metals, machinery and tractors -if and when Italy lifts her embargo on strategic exports to China. Gentili is now busily lining up export-hungry Italian businessmen to try to do just that...