Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adroit a compromiser as Signor de Gasperi could slither out of a few hard statistics. The government promised to expropriate 3,500,000 acres of land and redistribute it to the poor peasants; in fact, it has redistributed only 225,000 acres. Unemployment is close to 2,000,000. Italian productivity lags behind that of Britain and France. In the spring municipal elections, the Demo-Christians lost ground in the popular vote (TIME, June 25). Last month, beset by a revolt within his own party, De Gasperi resigned...
Negrini himself said nothing-nor did Claire's mother, who gave up and headed back to the U.S. But her Italian lawyer, Niccolo Bonelli, had a few words. Said he: "In any case the story is now completely over for us . . . We consider that Claire has been ruined by a vulgar delinquent...
...lavish ($6,500,000) production of MGM's supercolossal Quo Vadis, which was filmed with the help of 30,000 extras along the banks of the Tiber, amused some Italian onlookers almost as much as it impressed others. Last week in Rome, the Industrie Cinematografiche Sociali finished a good-humored satire called O.K. Nerone (rhymes with Peron-eh), a slapstick take-off on Quo Vadis in particular and extravagant U.S. movie spectacles in general...
...Nerone is scheduled for release next fall-just after the opening of Quo Vadis, so that Italian audiences can have their cake...
Died. Carlo Margotti, 60, Archbishop of Gorizia (near Trieste), who for 17 years took part in the touchy Yugoslav-Italian border disputes; of a heart ailment; in Gorizia, Italy. When Tito's Partisans entered Gorizia in 1945, Margotti was captured and sentenced to death as "an enemy of the Slovene people." Later, his sentence was commuted to banishment from Yugoslav territory...