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They meet over dinner at the Pensione Bertolini, a home away from home for respectable English tourists, managed, appropriately enough, by a cockney signora. Overhearing Lucy and her cousin complain that their room lacks a view of the Arno River, George's father (Denholm Elliott) offers to exchange the two ladies' rooms for his and his son's, which do possess the coveted perspective. Such an amenity is useless to him, he explains, for "my vision is within." So is that of his son, who is perhaps overly introspective, a characteristic telegraphed by his habit of constantly drawing question marks...
Most of the courses are designed to do just that. Arno Day, a fourth-generation Maine boatbuilder who runs the school's three-week class on the theory and practice of boatbuilding, divides his eight students into two teams of four each, then puts them right to work building a pair of 11-ft. boats. Designed by Day as a cross between a traditional down-East dory and a flat-bottomed skiff, the boats are teaching tools. They feature three types of planking and require students to go through almost all the procedures involved in the craft of building...
...Arno Koch Bermatingen, West Germany...
...success of Bell Labs is due, in large part, to its very special atmosphere. Says Arno Penzias, co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for his work in radio astronomy: "Unless it can be demonstrated that you're really wasting your time and our money, people leave you alone. The place demands that you work. But it also demands that you think " The research aims at practical products that AT&T can some day put on the market. But beyond that broad guideline scientists can let their imaginations roam. Take Penzias,' whose Nobel was awarded for an achievement...
...Fernando Arno Group--Ryles Upstairs...