Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northernmost corner of Pakistan-held Kashmir, is the world's second highest mountain: 28,250-ft. Mt. Godwin Austen, known to mountaineers as K-2.* For years, K-2 has been regarded as unclimbable. Last week the news came through that the unclimbable had been climbed by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, 57, a geology professor at the University of Milan...
...Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this...
...Showman. A onetime bus mechanic, Fangio is a suave, taciturn showman who learned his racing in Argentina during World War II. By 1948 he was ready to go abroad. A skilled and careful driver, he whipped across the tracks of postwar Europe like a well-controlled whirlwind. Driving an Italian Alfa Romeo, he won a fistful of prizes...
...that the film is released, Spiegel is off to Venice, where his picture will be shown at the annual film festival. "The Italians like this movie," he says. "The festival chairman told me that Waterfront is the first Italian film made in America...
Died. Giulio Gelardi, 80, Italian-born onetime manager of some of the world's most famed international hotels (New York's Waldorf-Astoria, London's Claridge's and Savoy, Rome's Excelsior); of cancer; in London...