Word: corinthia
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Serenely set on a hilltop in the village of San Anton, the deluxe Corinthia Palace Hotel is four miles inland from the Mediterranean. Still, the scene within the hotel's gleaming white walls was as diverse as any beneath that calm, bright sea. Delegates scampered through the hotel lobby in bathing trunks just in time to change for the morning sessions. Thomas Mann's erudite daughter, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, who originated the conference, chatted with Cameroon's U.N. Minister Paul Bamela Engo, resplendent in red fez and flowing blue robe. Justice William O. Douglas, chairman...
Died. Baron Karl Auer von Welsbach, 72, famed Austrian scientist and inventor (Welsbach gas mantle); at his castle in Corinthia...
...united under our flag. The whole of Istria, with Gorizia, Gradisca and Trieste as far as the River Isonzo, the city and Province of Zara, the island of Cherso, Lussin Grande and Lus-sin Piccolo, Lagosta and Pelagosa, as well as southeastern Slavonia, are now in Italian hands. Northern Corinthia and Styria are now Austrian. Northern Belanja and the Province of Mur are now Hungarian. The Eastern Banat is now Rumanian. The Provinces of Vidin and Stredac are now Bulgarian. Scutari in Northern Albania is now Albanian...