Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa as the point of delivery...
...reason President Carter is opposed to the construction of the experimental fast-breeder on the bank of the Clinch River in Tenn. Skeptics argue that Super Phenix, which will cost $1.5 billion-a conventional reactor costs $1 billion-is too expensive. But the plant's builders, a French-Italian-West German consortium, counter that the fast-breeder's electricity will be competitive with oil-generated power. The bonus, says Giscard, is that "if uranium from French soil is used in fast-breeder reactors, we in France will have potential energy reserves comparable to those of Saudi Arabia...
Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr told an Italian interviewer in Tehran yesterday that release could come in two days if Washington accepts all conditions set by Iran...
...when he was 17. The following year he blossomed. He was the World Cup leader in the slalom and giant slalom, and was in contention for the combined championship (slalom, giant slalom and downhill) until the final day of the season at Val Gardena, Italy, when he lost to Italian Gustavo Thoeni in a dramatic, head-to-head slalom. In 1976, he became the first Scandinavian to win the World Cup, and he was again champion...
Like so many comics of his time, James Francis Durante grew up on New York City's teeming Lower East Side and left school early. From his Neapolitan mother, he inherited his legendary nose. From his French-Italian father, a barber, he got the encouragement to study the piano. By age 17, "Ragtime Jimmy" was performing in saloons from Coney Island to Chinatown, with a singing waiter named Eddie Cantor...