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...outsiders -- the ones behind the scenes and the ones gazing at the screen -- fed each other's good fortune. The audience made the filmmakers rich and famous; in return, movie people taught moviegoers, in the U.S. and all over the world, how to be Americans. When Film Maestro Federico Fellini was in New York City last month to receive tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he recalled the spell American movies cast over his provincial Italian boyhood in the 1920s: "I saw that there existed another way of life, a land of wide open spaces and fantastic cities...
...busy at the economic summit. On Friday afternoon she visited a rehabilitation clinic in the Alban Hills and heard residents recount their fall into heroin addiction. That night she dined at the residence of U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb with 60 of Rome's glitterati (Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Federico Fellini, Valentino...
...comes from," explains Ambassador Corr in Bolivia, "the more bang you get for your buck. By the time it gets to East St. Louis or Champaign, Ill., it's all over the place." U.S.-backed programs of coca eradication have enjoyed some measure of success: last fall in "Operation Federico" in Brazil, 9 million epadu plants were burned while workers in Peru slashed down more than 5,000 acres, three times more than in all 1983. But eradication does not work unless it is accompanied by adequate compensation to campesinos for the loss of a crop that requires less work...
Denver Mayor Federico Peña had officially declared it "Orange Monday" in honor of the Denver Broncos' team colors. With ABC Monday Night Football scheduled to show the Broncos taking on the visiting Green Bay Packers and with gorgeous Indian-summer weather prevailing throughout the Rockies, civic boosters hoped the national exposure would lure conventioneers, new business, tourists and-who knows?-maybe even a long-awaited major league baseball franchise for Colorado...
...always hoped for a great deal." The voice carries the deliberate calm of a man who has struggled singly and triumphed over great odds. One thinks of Gary Cooper in the last scenes of High Noon, though Kennedy now sees himself living in a smash movie by Federico Fellini...