Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only 2,000 umbrella-toting Romans came out to look, and only a few shouted "Viva Ike" (pronounced Eekay). Among the most vociferous were Rome's Communists, who had greeted SHAPE Supreme Commander Ike on his last visit in 1952 with...
Mesmeric Effect. Singer Montand was born Yvo Livi, the son of an Italian broommaker. Fleeing Mussolini's Blackshirts, the family settled in the harbor district of Marseille, where Yves quit school to become successively a waiter, bartender, factory worker and hairdresser. His evenings he spent at the movies watching his idols-Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet; by the time he was 18, he was doing imitations of all three in suburban flea pits. The transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with...
...first nation to fall under Fascist guns, Ethiopia, with bitter memories of the League of Nations' ineffectually in coping with Mussolini in 1935, was quick to send troops to Korea under the U.N. flag in 1951. Generally siding with the West. Ethiopia has received in the last seven years $107 million in U.S. aid. But the Ethiopians never thought it was enough and grumbled about having to keep books on how they spent...
...stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under a temporary U.N. trusteeship, due to wind...
Professionally and financially, the Paris orphan plumbed new depths during the years leading up to World War II. Circulation fell below 15,000; the paper, dependent on tourist advertising, shamelessly painted a false picture of Europe so as not to lose it. It applauded Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia, turned its back on Hitler's invasion of Austria to editorialize on mothers-in-law. But the paper always had a smattering of good newsmen, e.g., Elliot Paul, Eric Sevareid, CBS Newscaster Ned Calmer, all of whom apprenticed there. And when a veteran staffer, Eric Hawkins, was appointed managing...