Word: turin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near war's end, Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers...
Solborg also signed up Armco to install a continuous strip process in the Fiat auto plant at Turin, and to help with a $4,300,000 modernization of a sheet steel mill at Terni, 34% financed by ECA funds. Said Solborg: "This is the sort of thing ECA should have been doing from its very beginning. The only way to impart American know-how to European industry is through people who do it best-American business and industry...
...Turin, an Italian Court of Assizes confirmed the annulment of the marriage of Film Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini to Marcella de Marchis, mother of his eight-year-old son. Rossellini was thus free to marry Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, who was pressing hard for a divorce from her Hollywood surgeon-husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom...