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...bestseller, The Italians, a penetrating study of his own people, Author Luigi Barzini noted his countrymen's talent for making a mess of things but doing it with great flair. Last week, as a Liberal (right-wing) Deputy in the National Assembly, Barzini participated in an Italian reversal of form. After 13 days and 20 frustrating ballots in which no one gained a majority, the Assembly finally elected Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat, 66, President of Italy. "They picked the best man," said Barzini whimsically, "but in the worst possible...
...within their own form and stay in the black, and that, as he puts it, "if you are going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest plant and facilities." But the heavy financial investments needed to create such an entity would be for nought without a special flair for sensing what is acceptable to the public-for that, ultimately, accounts for success in the entertainment world. This Lew Wasser man has to a unique degree, and it has helped him bring Hollywood back from the margin of extinction...
Back at Cal in September, Savio found a cause to his taste when the university forbade on-campus collections for political ends, including Snick. He also found, in himself, an almost Latin American eloquence (he used to stutter), a sense of demagoguery, and a neat flair for martyrdom. Savio dropped his classes and to lead a self-styled Free Speech Movement aimed at battering down the university's limits on out-of-classroom expression. His gifts were nicely matched by the university's habit of vacillating between concessions and crackdowns. By early last week F.S.M. had won most...
...latest yardstick used by Manhattan's Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., the industry's Boswell), Penn Square Mutual shot up 29% v. a 19% rise in the Dow-Jones industrials, Fidelity Trend rose 27% , and the $744 million Dreyfus Fund, whose symbolic lion gives its sales promotion a distinctive flair, climbed 23% . Among the big funds that emphasize a mixture of growth and in come, United Accumulative Fund rose 17% and Affiliated Fund 16%. Massachusetts Investors Trust, the nation's oldest and second largest ($2.1 billion assets), made a 15% gain. But most funds gained closer...
...after 7-lb. 9-oz. Christopher was delivered, she held a press conference to tell about it. "It beats any show I've been to," trilled Carol, who had stayed awake all through her own production and was later told by her doctor, "You did that with great flair." The hospital wouldn't let her husband, Singer Robert Goulet, 31, in on the act, but that was just as well, since he had refused to take the educated-fatherhood course...