Word: clara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duce himself followed the pattern when he took up with the beautiful Clara Petacci in place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...
Both grimacers are converts to the latest twist in isometric exercises, which hitherto-and short of the jowls-have been used increasingly in the past decade as a means of strengthening muscles by making them push, pull and strain. Now a Manhattan nurse named Clara E. Patterson is out with a book showing how the same type of exercise, performed five minutes daily, may replace "the usual 'face-lifting' job" in slimming chins and smoothing wrinkles...
Georgi Griner plays Ghenry Ghiggins with a Kiev accent, and The Rain in Spain came out Carl Stole Clara's Corals. Even if something were lost in translation, Maya Prekrasnaya Ledy brought 2,700 first-nighters to their feet in Moscow's Operetta Theater. "A great success," trumpeted Tass. But not everybody could have danced all night. "The Soviets did not go through proper channels," groused CBS, which bought the foreign rights to My Fair Lady from Authors Alan Lerner, 46, and Frederick Loewe, 60, in 1960. The Russians, of course, paid no one a ruble. But Producer...
...companies who discreetly proscribe bottled cheer but want to reach the recipient through taste buds, there are Southern hams, Texas pecans, or fruits packed by more than a dozen Florida and California growers. Santa Clara's Day & Young, Inc. offers a "Royal Feast" that costs $21.95 and includes two smoked pheasants, two cheeses and four jars of marinated artichoke hearts. Busiest fruit packer of all is 64-year-old "Harry & David" of Medford, Ore., whose business annually exceeds $10 million and whose corporate orders often total $25,000 at a clip...
Born. To Felisberto Mutangua, 36, African vegetable farmer, and Clara Bulane Mutangua, 32: quintuplets, four boys and a girl (weights ranging from 2 Ibs. 12 oz. to 3 Ibs. 5 oz.), doubling the size of their brood; in Inhambane, Mozambique. Four days after birth the babies lived through an 11-hour, 212-mile ambulance ride along bumpy roads to a hospital in Lourenco Marques, thus vastly improving their chance to become history's fifth set of quints to survive...