Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime buddies in the Italian underground, Subbiano's two top Communists made a fine team; tough Mayor Sabatino Cerofolino had the brawn and wily Party Secretary Italo Nofri had the brain. But Italo Nofri also had a wife Bruna, whom he called "the prettiest girl in all Subbiano." Despite the fact that her husband and his friend had succeeded in converting a majority of her fellow villagers in the little Apennine town to Communism, Bruna remained an ardent Roman Catholic. She even insisted that their son be sent to study in a Catholic school, and despite his own deep...
...discussion with his old friend Italian Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, Florence's cheerful, chirpy little Mayor Giorgio La Pira once argued that bankers should divide their funds with the poor. "They would go to prison," replied Socialist Saragat. Christian Democrat La Pira, whom Florentines sometimes call "the Saint," shook his head. "Oh, no," said he, "they would go to Paradise...
DAMAGE. Flashed to the third-floor city room, the SOS was the first any Manhattan newspaper knew of the collision between the Italian liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish American Line's Stockholm (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Times stopped its presses, hustled to cover the story. In the next 36 hours it proved once again what newsmen have known ever since the sinking of the S. S. Titanic* in April 1912: the sedate, sometimes plodding New York Times can get up and gallop like a quarter horse on a fast-breaking disaster...
While prewar Greek ships were sorrylooking rustbuckets, Niarchos has turned out some of the handsomest merchantmen afloat. To get top seamen, Niarchos pays his Italian, Greek, German and British crews more than they would earn under their own national flags (but less than one-third of the U.S. scale), equips his new tankers with air conditioning, lavish private quarters for all hands, tiled showers, TV, elevators, recreation rooms...
...Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...