Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showing in elections, and this is apparently what worries Castillo Armas most. Of Cordova, one government deputy said last week: "He's far worse than a Communist. He's presidential timber." Since June the government's policy has been to crack down on all dissent. Said Mario Sandoval, secretary-general of the government party, in a speech seconded by Castillo Armas: "Ours is the party of force, of combat and of organized violence-if our enemies...
...Italian wonder horse, unbeaten in his 13 previous starts, had his work cut out to put away the Queen's own High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot has been designated a live and kicking...
...Italian Bantamweight Mario D'Agata, a stone-deaf laundryman from Arezzo, opened a cut over the eye of Champion Robert Cohen in the third round of a match in Rome, and then kept slicing at it accurately and relentlessly. At the bell for the start of the seventh, Cohen's cut was bleeding uncontrollably, and D'Agata was new champion...
Other noteworthy records: Nine Beethoven Symphonies, played by the NBC Symphony under Toscanini and popularly priced (Victor, 6 LPs); Puccini's Turandot, with Inge Borkh and Mario del Monaco and St. Cecilia Academy musicians under Alberto Erede (London, 3 LPs); Ravel's Complete Piano Works, played by Walter Gieseking (Angel...
Except for poor Wanda who is an appealingly devoted fan as played by Brunella Boro, none of the people really are people. They are examples. The White Sheik himself (Alberto Sordi) combines aspects of Mario Lanza, Liberace, and Fernando Lamas in a gloriously dripping mixture. Wanda's husband is played, sometimes ferociously, sometimes stoically, by Leopoldo Triesti. Hordes of Moorish monsters also appear to attack the White Sheik along with relatives to attack Wanda's husband; and these creatures add motion to the commotion...