Word: sicilianism
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Italy's No. 1 Red Palmiro Togliatti, who barely escaped death in 1948 when a Sicilian gunman pumped three bullets into him, was severely injured when the driver of his fast-moving grey Aprilia sedan swerved to avoid a fruit truck, crashed into an embankment and overturned twice...
...trying to survive the impact of overpowering events. Made by Luigi (To Live in Peace) Zampa, the least publicized of Italy's top three directors,* the film explores the effects of the last ten years of Fascist rule on a simple government clerk and his family in a Sicilian town...
Shortly after a Tommy gun cut down Sicilian Badman Salvatore Giuliano last fortnight (TIME, July 17), a British camera crew took off for Sicily to make a film about the bandit's bloody exploits. Producer Nelson Scott revealed that he had ordered the story written months ago, had patiently waited ever since for the real-life ending...
Died. Salvatore Giuliano, 27, famed Sicilian bandit, a Robin Hood to many a peasant and schoolboy, public enemy No. 1 to Italy's police; trapped by carabinieri gunfire; in Castelvetrano, Sicily (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Novelist Baron's soldiers belonged to a company of battle-worn British infantrymen who had fought their way across the Sicilian plain in the summer of 1943 and reached the seaport town of Catania, in the shadow of Mt. Etna. There they commandeered a tenement building and settled down to rest...