Word: alban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that some tenants will be forced to move. No houses will be torn down until the first phase of the new development is finished and the displaced tenants will have first priority in the new housing--but some of them may not want to move in. On St. Alban's Road, one of the boundaries of the development site, an elderly woman standing outside the building she had lived in for 50 years declared that she had no intention of living in the modern housing. "I'm used to five or six rooms to walk around in," she said...
...offensive again, he has summoned more than 80 Vatican "ambassadors" and heads of missions to Frascati in the Alban Hills near Rome. It will be the first plenary assembly of papal diplomats in Vatican history. The meeting, scheduled for early September, is expected to chart the Vatican's next moves toward better relations with Communist and non-Christian countries. Just how successful Pope Paul's past diplomatic overtures have been is underscored by the fact that the Holy See now has the right to name bishops in all Eastern European countries except Albania, and maintains diplomatic relations with...
...observer, since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. China has remained aloof. Despite a number of goodwill gestures by the Pope, the Chinese have shown little interest in dealing with the Vatican. How to establish such relations will clearly be one of the subjects on the agenda of the Alban Hills meeting...
...nothing to say to the press as she got into a car to be driven to the black Rolls-Royce where Richard Burton was waiting. Both Burtons were wet- eyed as they embraced, then sped to Sophia Loren's clay-red villa, close by in s the Alban Hills. Fans are advised to 5 stand by for the next installment...
Though he turned the Alban Hills into something like the landscape around Kyoto, he faithfully retained the details -and mistakes-of the original, itself probably drawn by a man who had never been to Rome either. European engravers, in fact, provided a constant flow of information for Japanese painters of Namban-ga. The demand among the castle lords for paintings like A Western Prince on Horseback stemmed partly from the princes' recognizably military splendors; these gorgeously caparisoned Western samurai must have fitted the opulence of the Momoyama period's taste down to the last tassel and square foot...