Word: gaeta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candlestick-cum-reliquary depicting the flight into Egypt, borrowed from a church in Gaeta, is an exquisite example of how late medieval French styles penetrated into Italian taste at the end of the 14th century. Bernardino da Foligno's late quattrocento bust of St. Balduino has a grave nobility and an intensity of modeling that, one supposes, the saint's living features could not have had. (The actual head of St. Balduino, like a stone in a peach, lies encased within the sculpture...
...ships of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean has been to push all commanders into a new concern for the dependents of their seagoing officers and men. When the U.S.S. Springfield recently put into Malta, more than 20 petty officers' wives from the ship's home port of Gaeta awaited the ship's arrival, because for the first time their husbands were permitted to spend nights ashore at a transient stop. Some 450 men from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying home for Christmas thanks to the new regulations...
...conferred in September with President Nixon. At a recent session, one wife complained that U.S. naval families based in Italy knew too little Italian. Kidd ordered a three-month trial of voluntary lessons. On another complaint, Kidd said he would order Navy doctors and dentists in Naples to visit Gaeta more regularly to treat dependents' ills...