Word: umbertos
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...little trouble for the 70,000 carabinieri and crack police mobilized to keep order. Near the Vatican young Communists wearing scarlet neckerchiefs eyed with composure the carmine sash of 95-year-old Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he cast his vote. King Umberto, after long discussions with his advisers, decided to vote. Queen Marie-José had to wait in line for half an hour...
...week's end, with a national disaster threatening (and national elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...invitation of pro-Italian King Farouk Vittorio Emanuele III can live comfortably in Egypt on a Britain-invested fortune founded by his father, Umberto I, who took out ?1,000,000 life insurance just before his assassination...
Behind him the tired, 76-year-old ex-monarch left his son Umberto (41) to become the fourth, and perhaps last, King of Italy. With the major political party, the Christian-Democrats, and virtually all the others, on record for a republic, Umberto II faced national elections a fortnight hence, launched an 11th-hour, last-ditch campaign to sell the people on the idea of "a renovated monarchy...
Leftists, confident that the June 2 referendum would establish an Italian republic, dubbed Umberto Il Re di Maggio (King...