Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organize a general walkout on classes by students and professors to protest against the trend toward war. On the other hand, the dictatorships were watched, discussed, and often dismissed lightly as misguided, at worst. Professors, one by one, discounted the importance or durability of Hitler's regime. Articles by Mussolini, appearing in the CRIMSON, received little controversial attention. Only near the end of the year, with the incident of returning reunioner Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl, did the issue begin to assume immediate importance in the College...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff...
Money & Motels. As a civil servant, Mattei was appointed head of Mussolini's nearly defunct oil exploration agency in 1945, with orders to liquidate it. Instead he poured money into research and discovered vast fields of natural gas in the Po Valley. Today ENI gas, pumped through 3,100 miles of ENI's own pipelines, supplies 2,500,000 Italian families and 2,000 factories...
Died. Saverio Polito, 79, overzealous Rome police chief (1946-53) accused (and later cleared) of hushing up investigation of the notorious Wilma Montesi death, jailed by the Fascists in 1943 on a charge of trying to seduce Mussolini's wife while she was in his custody; of a circulatory ailment; in Rome...
...Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood, 79, longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain's Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. "He passes," someone said, "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...