Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Water. It was at Monaco that Italy's world champion, Alberto Ascari, drove straight through a sea wall into the Mediterranean (luckily, he could swim); that Rudy Caracciola suffered the leg injury that left him a cripple for life; that Luigi Fagioli crashed and died. Last week 16 cars and drivers took the starter's flag, and only six finished the race. Among those who did not: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1965 Grand Prix champion, who smashed into a retaining wall and walked away...
...submitted practically all of Spain's economy to the hands of Opus Dei. Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, Minister of Commerce Faustino Garcia-Monco, Minister of Industry Gregorio López Bravo, Central Bank Governor Mariano Navarro Rubio and Ambassador to the Common Market Alberto Ullástres are all members. Spain's sixth largest private bank (Banco Popular Espaňol) is owned almost solely by Opus Dei members, and they reportedly control 13 other banks and insurance companies, 16 real estate and construction firms and an industrial empire that includes five chemical...
...Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between Doris Lessing and Italy's Alberto Moravia more pronounced than their differences of sex and language...
...Artist Pike has a widely established reputation as a portraitist. Her commissions have included paintings of Art Connoisseur Norton Simon and his family, Bob Hope (who owns more than 20 of her works), Washington's National Gallery Director John Walker, Louvre Conservator Magdeleine Hours and Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti...
...need for further improvement. Last month Chile observed a national "University Reform Week," and Brazil's National Education Council recently proposed a law requiring the country's 18 federal universities to present plans for reorganization or lose federal funds. Until these programs bear results, concludes Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia, Latin American schools will continue "on a chaotic path that is almost classic in the world-universities of authorities without authority and students who do not want to study, locked in a constant and sterile battle...