Word: excelsior
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What happens next is known only in the innermost nuclear circles, if it is known there. Some outside guessers think that the reaction, once started, will be self-sustaining. The nuclear fire will sweep through the lithium deuteride like a flame through dry excelsior. Others believe that the reaction will have to be stimulated, continuously or intermittently, by energy from outside...
...Guatemala. The rumors were partly based on the fact that Arbenz has been conspiratorially busy; Mexico's government has repeatedly cautioned its numerous Guatemalan exiles to refrain from "political activity." Arbenz' arrogant refusal to do so has left a bad taste with many Mexicans; the leading daily Excelsior last week sourly cartooned him as a hen flying off and leaving a brood of chicks marked with the hammer and sickle. Stopping in Paris en route to Lausanne, he told reporters: "I am not renouncing politics. I will remain in politics all my life." But, mindful of the rumors...
From then on, my room in the Hotel Excelsior became a TIME field office. Typewriters and a portable radio were hauled out of my unpacked luggage. Extra tables and a telephone were brought into the already littered room. Thus camped in our small room, we typed, phoned, took down messages, captioned pictures strewn on beds, munched sandwiches...
...sunny afternoon half of white-collar Rome strolls down the Via Veneto to see the movie stars at play. There they sit at the dime-size sidewalk tables at Doney's and Rosati's and the Strega, or slouch along the bar at the Excelsior Hotel. There, like swarms of gnats, come the hundreds of little middlemen, promoters, rumor touts and inside-kiters who do the dizzy business of making Italian movies. And in the oleander evenings, while the Roman sky turns blue and gold, the "wasps" (motor scooters) snarl through the Via Veneto, and oldtimers sip their...
Died. Giulio Gelardi, 80, Italian-born onetime manager of some of the world's most famed international hotels (New York's Waldorf-Astoria, London's Claridge's and Savoy, Rome's Excelsior); of cancer; in London...