Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...
...three DC-6s for its transatlantic run. The U.S. flights, now scheduled for once a week, will be stepped up to three or four a week when the company buys three additional DC-6s. Said Ambassador Dunn: "L.A.I.'s success is a marked step along the way of Italian recovery...
...initials L.A.I, stood for Linee Aeree Italiane, which was formed in 1946, when the Italian government teamed up with Trans World Airlines to revive commercial aviation in Italy. T.W.A. and Italy each took a 40% interest in the new company, sold the remaining 20% to three private Italian concerns. As president of L.A.I, they picked personable Prince Pacelli, now 43, a popular, socialite Rome lawyer. As his American deputy they chose auburn-haired Richard Mazzarini, a Rome-born U.S. citizen who had worked for a U.S. airline before serving...
...during the war. Handsome General Luigi Gallo, who was a squadron leader in Italo Balbo's famed formation flight to the U.S. in 1933, and in 1945 became director of Italian civil aviation, was made boss of operations...
...climb is encumbered with a heavy load of symbolism. The mountain itself symbolizes Life, and each member of the climbing party is tagged with a different nationality and a different motive for climbing, i.e., for living. The climbers: a warmhearted Italian girl (Valli), a war-weary American (Glenn Ford), an unreconstructed Nazi (Lloyd Bridges), a decadent Frenchman (Claude Rains), a philosophical Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a dutiful Swiss (Oscar Homolka). Before the peak comes into sight, they revert pretty much to national typecasting, and the plot maneuvers them to illustrate some simple homilies (e.g., Love conquers all; United we stand...