Word: ducal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report prompted one West German newspaper to comment that Americans abroad are paid "ducal salaries." It has stirred a somewhat different reaction from U.S. executives in Europe. "I read that and gulped hard," says Ed ward Roach, European marketing director for Honeywell Inc., who is transferring this month from Frankfurt to Brussels. "Only if you're willing to live like a native can you do pretty well." The trouble, according to some overseas executives, is that living like a native often means squeezing a family into a cramped apartment and doing without some amenities that Americans take for granted...
...properties (including 57,000 acres of farm land) earned him $528,000, and the net this year should be at least as great. But now the Duke is also the Prince of Wales, a title that carries a certain noblesse oblige. So Charles has asked that half his ducal revenues be turned over to the government. "He felt he wanted to make a gesture of this sort," said a palace spokesman. But the troubled Exchequer will get no great boost from the gift, which comes on Nov. 14, Charles' 21st birthday. While Charles was a minor, most...
also had eyes on Ferrari. Founder Enzo Ferrari, a onetime racing driver who rules his 30-year-old Modena plant with almost ducal authority, at first turned away both suitors, though he did agree to design the engine for Fiat's Dino Spider sports car. Since then, however, the prancing black horse of Modena, the longstanding insignia of Ferrari, has worn few winner's laurels. So far this year, Ferrari's single-seat Formula 1 cars have broken down in three major races - Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix of Spain and of South Africa. The laborious production...
...Appian Way, a modern traveler in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy easily imagines himself in the Middle Ages. On the hill opposite, like a romantic vision, sits an amphitheater of golden-tinted houses with red-tiled roofs rising row upon row to the double crown of a ducal palace and a Norman tower...
Along the walls of the piazza, a sadly dated message could still be read: WE WILL CARRY EVER FORWARD THE FORCE, THE CIVILIZATION AND THE CULTURE OF ROME: BELIEVE, OBEY, FIGHT . . . DUCE, DUCE, DUCE. Yet modern history, Mussolini included, had passed Torregreca by. The imposing ducal palace was actually chopped up into "a squalid maze of schoolrooms and government offices, each with a stovepipe sticking drunkenly out of a window." Change was the shallowest of facades, mostly visible as ruin. A "cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office...