Word: lugano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Middle-East tensions were erupting in a blast of gunfire (see FOREIGN NEWS), honeymooning King Farouk of Egypt dealt firmly with a tense situation of his own. In Lugano, Switzerland, a photographer snapped his picture. When the pudgy monarch protested, local policemen seized the film. Higher-ranking police, who later ordered the film returned, explained: "Switzerland is a free country." Said Farouk: "I will never return to Switzerland again." Then he and his entourage of 50 flounced off to Italy...
...ninth child of a father who made a fortune in the import-export business in South America, then returned to his pink villa in the little town of Cadegliano overlooking Lake Lugano to settle down to the quiet life. Gian-Carlo's mother, a dynamic woman who took up painting at 60, the guitar at 62, was the main influence in his life. An artistic woman herself, she sought out talent among all of her children, especially lavished her attention on little Gian-Carlo, who seemed to have the most...