Word: ciampino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the serviceable roadbed of the old Appian Way, now called "Appia Antica" to distinguish it from a more up-to-date Appian Way running in the same direction. The 20th century, like those that preceded it, has left its mark on the ancient road. Rome's busy Ciampino airport lies only 200-odd yards away. Near a group of ancient Roman tombs, Actress Silvana Mangano has built herself a spanking new Hollywood-type villa, complete with swimming pool. Across the way from the Church of Domine Quo Vadis?, where tradition holds that Jesus appeared to the wavering Apostle...
...scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...
After seven months of it, Narriman looked pale, tired-and tired of it all. Two weeks ago mother-in-law Mme. Assila Sadek flew in from Cairo and flew at the ex-King. Result: Narriman, impassive behind dark glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would...
When they arrived at Ciampino airport, the visitors got a preliminary taste of U.S. pressagentry. Robert Taylor's old Roman chariot led the planes off the runway and carried baggage to the waiting room. During the next few days the delegates...
...what he said, so much as the way he said it. In Rome last week, Dwight Eisenhower made no remarks about any plans for the presidency. But when his big Constellation took off from Ciampino Airport, after a 48-hour visit to the NATO conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), he left every political observer in the city convinced that a candidate's button was firmly pinned on his blouse beneath his five-star insigne...