Word: luca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vineyards, minute garden patches and chicken yards that speckle a Trieste hillside. Well armed with the tools of the surveyor's profession, a detachment of the border commission in charge of dividing Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia arrived one day last week at the two-acre plot of Luca Eller, a 65-year-old farmer of Italian extraction. The commissioners discovered that the line laid out in the Trieste agreement would cut directly through the trim, two-story red house where Eller lived with his wife, his two sons and his two grandchildren...
...reasons. Even among Italian operas, the plot is a wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house a complete Verdi cycle" -settled on Forza for his 1952 opener...
...pack of cigarettes. The time had come to dim the spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both Moscow-trained Communists. Into the amber spot at stage center the Communists pushed Gheorghiu-Dej, the man left in prison back in 1941. He became Premier...
...said. "If, we allow our organization to be destroyed, our friends will have no hope." Giuliano made a gesture. He wrote a letter to the trial judge in which he took personal blame for the murders. Pisciotta, far from satisfied, arranged a meeting in Rome with Carabinieri Colonel Ugo Luca, whose sole assignment for two years had been to kill or capture Giuliano. The two talked long and earnestly. Then the bandit lieutenant drove to Castelvetrano, where his chieftain was hiding...
Died. Giuseppe De Luca, 73, Rome-born operatic baritone, one of the brightest stars of the Metropolitan's "Golden Age"; in Manhattan. He sang in the world premiere of Madame Butterfly (Milan, 1904), was in the cast when Rosa Ponselle, Marion Talley, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons made their Metropolitan debuts, when Enrico Caruso sang his last aria...