Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the plot for a moment. Alfredo Alcon is going to die in a week or so. His mother persuades Graciella Borges to be his mistress by promising her a trip to Paris following the funeral. After a few days of amorous ghoulash, Alcon's doctors tell him he will...
Prime mission of the 8,000-ton Bainbridge will be antisubmarine warfare; the ship bristles with special torpedoes and rockets to hunt out the underwater enemy. But the destroyer is also armed with antiaircraft Terrier missiles, may be used as an escort. "This ship is really a task force in...
First on the scene was Juan Carlos. The prince stepped off the plane from Lisbon with an inappropriately gay smile and wearing impeccably cut sports clothes. Accompanied by his wife, Greek Princess Sophie, he set out for an inspection trip surrounded by foppishly elegant Catalan aristocrats. They were received unenthusiastically...
THE General Motors of U.S. advertising is New York's J. Walter Thompson Co. with 17 U.S. branches. 38 abroad, and worldwide billings last year of $380 million. In the driver's seat at Thompson is President Norman Hulbert Strouse, 55, a determinedly unemotional man whose prime strength...
Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the...