Word: gabbuggiani
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...from Italy. Henry Ford and his colleagues are in a mood for celebration. This week Bob Hope will zing his one-liners in the hotel's vast Renaissance Ballroom at a $300-per-couple dinner to benefit the Detroit Symphony. One guest will be Elio Gabbuggiani, mayor of Detroit's "sister city" of Florence, Italy, who was initially refused a visa by U.S. authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan...
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