Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mario Scelba, Italian Minister of the Interior, gripped the white steering wheel and stepped on the gas. His jet-black car shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...
...Party worker before the war, he has emerged as the strongest anti-Communist force in Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition cabinet. He has rebuilt Italy's police into a wellarmed, well-disciplined force nearly a quarter-million strong; his famed celere, or motorized police, whizz through Italian cities in jeeps, cracking down relentlessly on Communist street brawlers. To Communists, he is Public Enemy Numero...
Foreign-make cars dominated the field of 26 that lined up for the start of the 99-mile grind. French Bugattis and Italian Ferraris, British Allards, Jaguars and Healeys roared over the tortuous 6.6-mile course. Here & there, for the people who were attuned to the pitch, could be heard the deep-throated rumble of a souped-up 200-h.p. Cadillac engine under some of the strapped-down hoods...
...with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...
...little (pop. 10,000) North Italian town of Suzzara has long been known for its fine Parmesan cheeses. Last week it was an art center as well, staged one of the biggest shows of Moscow-style art yet seen outside the Iron Curtain...