Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his nickname, Commander Lionel Kenneth ("Buster") Crabb was no great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
Less than 30 years ago, Aden Abdullah Osman was a houseboy for a minor Italian official in Italian Somaliland, a barren land on Africa's bulging eastern coast. Last week Aden Abdullah, now prematurely grey, rode through the streets of Mogadishu, the capital, past cheering crowds and saluting soldiers, to become the chairman of Somaliland's first elected Parliament and the leader of a new nation...
...score-for the rain-then-shine California romance of an aging Italian winegrower and the young waitress he has courted by mail-is at its best where it is lightest or most lightly lyrical. There is a male quartet cocking a very male eye in Standing on the Corner; there is the sheer Broadway frolicking of Big D, with its salute to Dallas; the gay lesson-in-English of Happy to Make Your Acquaintance; the Verdi-gurdy high spirits of Abbondanza and Sposalizio. But there is also the lyrical How Beautiful the Days, with its touch of Bellini-like sweetness...
FIAT BABY CAR, even smaller than famed Topolino, will be put on Italian market to compete with motorscooter-maker Vespa, currently at the rate of 213,487 scooters annually. The $640 Fiat will have two seats, get 55 miles to the gallon and go up to 53 m.p.h...
...world's most famed maker of racing cars is a grizzled, 58-year-old Italian who flunked out of technical school, puts little faith in slide rules and has never seen his autos race. In the 16 years since one of his cars won the first race it had entered. Enzo Ferrari's speedsters have racked up more road and track victories than any other cars in the world. Last year Ferraris thundered first across the finish line in 93 races. This year they have won Grand Prix trophies from Buenos Aires to Sebring, Fla. Last fortnight...