Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working for Pan-American Grace Airways in New York when the case broke last week. After the three confessions naming him had been made, he was never officially questioned about the case. In the past year, stories of how Holohan died appeared in the Italian press, and there were a few very incomplete hints in the U.S. press. But the details might never have been told if True magazine had not got on the scent, pulled the story together. Last week, when an advance copy of True reached Washington, the Defense Department dashed into print with a story it could...
Manini and Tozzini are awaiting trial in Italy, and last week the Italian government considered asking that LoDolce and Icardi be extradited from the U.S. to be tried with them...
...gamblers put up an 800 million-lira casino and a couple of hotels and promised to pay San Marino a cut of a million lire ($1,600) a day. The Communists piously forbade San Marinese themselves to enter the casino, relied upon a steady stream of wealthy, land-owning Italians and foreign tourists. Said San Marino's parish priest resignedly: "At first the parishioners thought the casino a scandal. Then they got used to it, for the price of furnished rooms began to rise considerably. There is hardly a family which does not have a croupier as a paying...
...when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China hands and one Chinese businessman...
...planned as a place where men & women could come from all over the world to work and pray and search in each other's company for God. It was to be a place in which there would be no more Italians or Americans or Germans, Lutherans or Calvinists or Episcopalians-only Christians. It started in the head or the heart of a young Florentine, Tullio Vinay. He was an Italian Protestant, a Waldensian pastor...