Word: umbertos
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...middle-aged hero (Umberto Spadaro), Fascism at first is something to suffer in silence and loathe from a distance. Then it closes in until it engulfs him: it forces him to join the party or lose his job; it turns his wife and daughter into prattling Mussolini worshipers; it sends his oldest son (Massimo Girotti) to fight in Ethiopia, Spain, Albania and Russia and claims his two younger sons for the Battle of Sicily...
...Degrees. In 1898, Italy's King Umberto I agreed to have the relic photographed. Secondo Pia, a photographer of Turin, was given the job. While developing the plate, he reported: "Suddenly I was so filled with fear that I almost fainted. For there grew plainly visible on the plate the face and body of a man whose head was covered with blood, whose wrists carried stigmata, whose expression was one of untold majesty...
...examine scientifically, religiously and historically those aspects of the holy linen which may lead to determination of its authenticity." Colored photographs, X-ray and chemical analyses seemed indicated, but much red tape needed unraveling before they would be forthcoming. The shroud, still the private property of ex-King Umberto II, has not been exhibited since the Holy Year...
...Fiats were sent off first, then the larger cars-mostly powerful Italian Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and British Jaguars. The man to beat, the experts thought, was four-time winner Clemente Biondetti, a hard-bitten roadwise pro who drove a big Jaguar. No one gave Gianni, Vittorio, Paolo and Umberto Marzotto much of a chance...
...pace did prove too much for Umberto, 23. In the first half of the race he skidded off the road, wrapped his car around a pole, got out only superficially hurt. Other drivers had worse in store. Peter Richard Monkhouse's British Healey somersaulted into a field and he died in the crash; Alvasio Bassi was crushed to death when his car turned turtle in a sweeping skid on the slippery asphalt. Fatalities did not compare with 1938, when 23 spectators were killed when one racer skidded into a crowd (Mussolini banned the race the next year...