Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...
...Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which is aimed at training U.S. graduate students for foreign jobs with business and Government. Last week Maxwell's current eight students were finishing up three months' intensive study of U.S. society and policy, Italian culture and language. They will soon go to Rome for four more months of living with Italian families and adapting their skills (economics, journalism, forestry) to the country...
...neighborhood, mainly immigrant Italian and Jewish families, had its tough side. "Dutch Schultz ran his rackets there," recalls Rocky. "But none of my real friends ever went to prison." The farthest Rocky ever strayed from the diamond was to the corner pool parlor, where he learned to shoot a sharp game. Rocky was too busy getting ready for the big leagues, squeezing rubber balls to build up his hand and arm muscles (he still does), hoarding his dimes to buy a good glove. His throwing arm was soon strong enough to win bets from the unwary, and there are those...
...soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot him in the neck and shoulder. Before he collapsed, the bleeding colonel disarmed his attacker, who was turned over to the Italian police (the Vatican City jail has been vacant for 20 years, is now used for storage). "It was a brief but violent struggle," said Nunlist, and clamped down all the harder...
JEWELRY PRICE CUTS up to 15% on gold and gold-plated items are in store for Christmas buyers, as low-priced Italian and Japanese imports put heat on U.S. makers...