Word: americano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Campari. A growing number of businessmen are fighting the post-luncheon haze by switching to such lighter-spirited European drinks as Lillet Orange (Lillet vermouth, soda, a slice of orange), the Americano (Campari, Cinzano dry vermouth, soda) or just plain Campari and soda. Sangria, a Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture...
Last week two of Spain's Big Five banks planned a merger that would help gear Spanish banking to the heavy demands ahead. It would meld Spain's biggest commercial bank, the Banco Hispano Americano (capitalization $19.6 million, reserves $47.2 million), with the Banco Central (capitalization $13.3 million, reserves $33.3 million). With these combined resources and 805 branches, the new bank would rank sixth in Europe...
Slice the Pasta. The supermarkets have grown fastest in Europe's rich soil. In Florence and Milan, the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. has opened eight supermarkets that the Italians fondly call "the Americano stores"; the Americanos have brought down the price of pasta as much as 40%. In Belgium, Chicago's Jewel Tea and Antwerp's Grand Bazar company have combined to open eleven supermarkets in the past two years, and last fortnight announced plans to open four more. Not only do these Belgian markets dramatically undersell corner grocers (examples...
...York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken of as the outstanding figure...
...necktie, recently gave another for a pair of long-toed shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin used to wear." "A Beheaded Mule." Guignard owes his life-and much of his present success -to a dedicated physician named Santiago Americano Freire, who nursed him back to health from a nearly fatal case of the DTs. Dr. Americano got his patient a state pension of $100 a month, arranged most of his exhibitions, which in one year alone sold more than 100 paintings...