USA Italy's Blue Team won its first of ten consecutive Bermuda Bowls. Chiaradia, Forquet, Siniscalco, and captain Carl'Alberto Perroux were veterans from the 1951 team. Avarelli, Belladona, D'Alelio, and Forquet played in every one. 1958 Como, Italy For 1958 the Bermuda Bowl tournament permanently included the champion of South America, whose federation and annual tournament were then ten years old. In the next several years, expansion covered other geographic zones and the defending champion. 1959 New York City, USA 1960s There was no Bermuda Bowl in 1960, 1964 or 1968 to avoid conflict with the World Team Olympiad. 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina The Blue Team won its fourth Bermuda Bowl, with Benito Garozzo now in the same lineup. This began a new string of annual world championships for Italy, after ranking only sixth in the inaugural World Team Olympiad, won by France. At the same time, the Bermuda Bowl tournament expanded to include the defending champions. Throughout the 1960s that would mean Italy plus one from the rest of Europe. Italy would use the European Team Championships to give some international experience to new players or new partnerships. Argentina finished fourth. 1962 New York City, USA Argentina finished fourth. 1963 Saint-Vincent, Italy Italy won again. This was the last for "Professor" Eugenio Chiaradia and the only one of the ten in a row that Walter Avarelli missed. Argentina finished fourth. 1965 Buenos Aires, Argentina Playing at home, Argentina represented South America for the sixth time and finally defeated one of the Europeans or Americans, namely Great Britain. This was the fifth consecutive world championship for the Blue Team, as it had won the second Olympiad in 1964. Italy would continue to win annually with the identical lineup through 1969, plus a successful comeback in 1972. Great Britain finished fourth. The event was marred by a cheating scandal involving the British pair Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, known as the "Buenos Aires affair". 1966 Saint-Vincent, Italy The tournament expanded to five with Asia, represented by Thailand. Venezuela took Argentina's usual place and won another third for South America. Canadians Sami Kehela and Eric Murray joined four US Americans for North America. Netherlands finished fourth and Thailand fifth. 1967 Miami Beach, USA Thailand and Venezuela returned to the field. More than forty years later, 1966/1967 remain their best national performances. Thailand finished fourth and Venezuela fifth. 1969 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Taiwan