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...insures the insurance companies-more than 1,000 of them are its clients-by accepting part of their liability for claims arising from natural catastrophe or human accident. On the broad marble staircase of the company's châteauesque lakeside headquarters stands a baroque statue of St. Florian, who is regarded as a protector against natural disasters. Says Matthew Klaas, 63, one of Swiss Re's two general managers: "Last year St. Florian let us down...
...staff of a dozen full-time and part-time correspondents ranged wide over the vast expanses of Brazil, conducted 150 interviews from the chief of the President's Cabinet to his schoolteachers. Following the President around Brazil, De Carvalho was on hand in the town of Florianópolis one morning at 6:30 when Quadros emerged for a busy day, looked at the reporter, and asked in some astonishment: "You here already?" Before his task was completed, De Carvalho had sent to New York a report that exceeded a massive 85,000 words...
Pink Centaur. Some coffeehouses are far out in a sense no beatnik could ever have imagined. The tony Florian on Boston's Newbury Street serves ten different kinds of coffee, caters to little old ladies nibbling anchovy canapes. Many establishments have specific dedications that would defy the nihilist beatnik code: New Orleans' House of the Fencing Masters, a coffeehouse gallery that displays the serious work of local artists, and the folk-song parlors, such as the Laughing Buddha in St. Louis and Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., where the Harvard boys listen reverently to the excellent voice...
Marie gave birth to only one child - a daughter, by Montreal Court Clerk Florian Houle. Marie named her baby after Emilie, the only one of the quints who is no longer alive (she died...
Amen. In Cedar Lake, Ind., in a 25-word-or-less essay contest on the subject, "How I Want My Wife to Dress for a Party," Winner Florian J. Heiser needed only one word: "Quickly...