Word: cannonism
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...metal slope on skis-on his hands. Madame Gena puts a ring full of camels through high-stepping Bactrian high jinks. Unus performs the impossible on one finger atop a light globe. Harold Alzana teeters through several near falls on his 40-ft. high wire. And the Zacchinis, their cannon now billed as "atomic," are launched in a flash of gun powder into a safety net and "recovered in time for the next countdown." Newest star is blonde Evelyn Currie, 20, who is appearing with Ringling Bros...
Generazione Bruciata. In the early days, before World War II, Romilda helped support her daughters by giving piano lessons in Pozzuoli and playing in local cafés. Sophia's grandfather-who now at 78 struts about town in the warmth of his magic celebrity-was then a cannon maker at the local arms factory. In the four-room family flat, nine people slept in one bedroom; Sophia shared a bed with her grandmother, grandfather and an aunt...
...library, a study and an oak-paneled bathroom. Outside, Carlo is excavating a 135-ft. swimming pool surrounded by a sort of pocket aqueduct with Romanesque arches on top of which will rise a huge, four-apartment guesthouse with 16th century curves and a frieze of stone statues and cannon balls...
Halftracks and armored cars pounded shopfronts and apartments with 37-mm. cannon. From behind a barricaded bar on the Boulevard Guillemin, a red-faced European screamed: "Remember this day! This is the day of our victory or death...
Table Talk. With this kind of trouble coming up, Bob McNamara quietly set about mending his fences on Capitol Hill. He made plans to appear before Congress again to restate his position on the RS-70s. He conferred with Chairman Clarence Cannon of the House Appropriations Committee. He even met privately and peaceably with Carl Vinson to talk over their impasse...