Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Gromyko, he wanted the agenda to include the Atlantic pact, U.S. bases in Europe and the Near East, Italian treaty violations, and the question of denazification and treatment of war criminals in Germany and Austria...
...date was March 2, 1944. The Allied Military Government hushed up the accident then because of the adverse effect it would have had on Italian morale; the accident received little publicity after the war. Eventually 300 lawsuits, asking damages of more than one billion lire ($1,600,000), were filed by relatives of the victims. Not until last week, when the cases were pending before the Naples Appellate Court, did the Italian press give wide publicity to the worst accident in Italian railroad history...
...even worse rail accident occurred in 1917 at St. Michel, near the Franco-Italian border, when a French troop train was wrecked, killing at least 535, injuring 243. Wartime censorship likewise hushed up the St. Michel disaster; the full story was told 16 years later...
Since it was brought to the U.S. at the turn of the century, the vast canvas has been mostly rolled up in storage. In 1944 it was bought by Forest Lawn, which has constructed for it a special "Hall of the Crucifixion." There, behind an Italian Gothic façade, in a 2,000-capacity auditorium complete with airconditioning, hearing aids, earthquake-proofing and an electronically synchronized light beam to identify some of the picture's 1,123 life-sized figures, a tape-recorded spiel will describe the painting six times a day, seven days a week...
...Italian drama, Bitter Rice, has Sylvana Mangano going through her seventh month of Po Valley histrionics at the World, 49 and Seventh...