Word: franz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are cynics who explain the Italian invasion as less of an onslaught than a mass escape from chaos at home. "Some of the families, they're running away from Italy while they can still get out," says Ginori Director Franz M. Aliquo. But most of the shopkeepers admit to a more direct motivation. "New York is the most important showcase in the world," says Gucci's Cagliarini. Aliquo of Ginori says: "We decided to come because of the prestige, just to say we had a branch on Fifth Avenue." "Angelo Rizzoli just wanted a bookshop on Fifth...
...princes and princesses, which is eleven more highnesses than it has square miles. Prince Franz Joseph II, 69, reigns over 24,000 citizens of what in every happy sense is a have-not nation: it has no slums or unemployment, no airports, divorces, billboards or TV station...
...West Germany, officials waited anxiously to see if the Church subcommittee will, as rumored, release documents this week indicating that Franz Josef Strauss and the Christian Social Union got Lockheed money. Strauss, the longtime right-wing strongman and leader of Bavaria's C.S.U., has been identified by Ernest F. Hauser, a former Lockheed European sales manager, as a receiver of Lockheed largesse; Strauss is suing Hauser for libel. When Strauss was Defense Minister in 1958, West Germany decided to order Starfighters?grimly known as "widow makers" in Germany because 178 of them have crashed...
...while I don't want to take anything away from these incredible athletes--Franz "King of the Hill" Klammer put one of many marvelous performances--I'm afraid I'm just simply a summer games...
Irony is another staple in the dining room. Superstars like Austrian Downhill Winner Franz Klammer get asked for autographs by other athletes, and the Russian hockey players, who are years older than most of the competitors, are looked on with awe. For the rest, the comfort of familiar faces appears to mean more than opportunities for international fellowship. The Swedes, in their yellow and blue, do not blend at the same table with the Rumanians in red. Nor do Americans eat with Russians. In fact, U.S. figure skaters do not sit with the American bobsledders; American skiers do not even...