Word: abruzzi
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Many men have been tempted to refuse election to the papacy, and some have done so. One day in 1294, after rivalries between candidates had kept the papal throne empty for more than two years, an 84-year-old hermit in the mountains of Abruzzi watched a small procession of cardinals winding up the path to his hermitage, where they kissed his hand and proclaimed him Pope. He protested that he was unequal to the task, but they dragged him off weeping and crowned him Celestine V (they finally permitted him to resign six months later...
...decadence of Augustan Rome, it can only be inferred, as in Restoration comedy, from the intensity of his frivolity. "Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication," says Translator Humphries. In a city of such sophisticates, Ovid, whose unlikely origin was the hard, bitter soil of Abruzzi (where he was born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox...
Gulf Oil, which spent $2,000,000 drilling for oil in Italy and discovered one potentially large field in Abruzzi on the Adriatic, last week struck its rig, announced that it was "renouncing the oil search and oilfields exploitation on the Italian continent." With that, the last U.S. company in Italy stopped hunting oil on the mainland, leaving a clear field to the state-owned Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (formerly the Fascist A.G.I.P.) that has grown under government pampering into a $100 million combine with a stranglehold on Italy's oil and natural gas. Four years ago, after spending some...
Frisky (Titanus; D.C.A.) proves that the Italian moviemakers are no better at doing sequels than Hollywood. Bread, Love and Dreams was a pleasant little comedy that got its fireworks from the incendiary performance of Gina Lollobrigida as she scattered sex and devastation through the streets of an Abruzzi village, and in the manly breasts of Policeman Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Risso. Frisky assembles all of the old cast and most of the old plot for another run-through. But this time the razor edge of comedy has dulled: Gina's rowdiness is strident, De Sica's amorous...
...production of methane to almost 100 times the prewar total, a noteworthy achievement. But as sn oil producer, E.N.I, has been a bungling flop. Where it has bored only dry holes and left, private explorers later found oil; so far, E.N.I, has raised only one gusher-in the promising Abruzzi area-and that by edging up close and spudding into a pool found months before by a private U.S.-Italian company...