Word: genoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skeg," or fin, has been added to her bottom to make her stiffer in the water, her stern has been shortened 2 ft. 5 in., her deck has been replaced, and her mast has been stepped aft about 1 ft. so that she can fly a bigger genoa. Now en route by freighter to New York, Columbia will not get into action until July, but Designer Stephens has assured Dougan that her new shape and fittings will make her "competitive...
...Image. First there was the bright 20-year-old, freelancing formula features at $10 apiece to the Toronto Star Weekly. Next came Hemingway at 23, foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, filing color stories on the Greco-Turkish war and the Genoa Economic Conference, along with vignettes of trout fishing in Germany and the "king business" in Europe. Some of that early stuff was basic Hemingway: clear as glass. He attended a prestigious press conference given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator...
...edge of Blackstone Street, running parallel to the line of pushcart fortifications, is a rickety row of retail meat shops, most of which are open six days a week. So, as you start down the Blackstone sidewalk, there are turnips to the left, genoa salami to the right. The meat shops go in for variety. Capicollo. Mortadella. Proscuttino. Pepperoni. Eight different kinds of salami, including carando milanese and d'annuzio. May we suggest some Bunker Hill Baloney? The butcher men whisper loudly like dark corner procurers. "Hey, buddy, you want some nice chops? How 'bout it? I got some nice...
...Long." Ironically enough, it took a member of one of Genoa's most conservative old-line families, Shipping Magnate Giacomo Costa, 61, to make the first move to clean up the city's mercantile morass. For Genoa, Costa's scheme was downright startling. Concluding that the only long-term solution to the city's port problem was to look for space elsewhere, he got the backing of 170 leading Genoese businessmen, built a new landlocked "port" on the other side of the Apennines, 40 miles inland at Rivalta Scrivia. Linked...
...operation just four months, the $12 million venture is moving only 20,000 tons of cargo a month, but Costa predicts that volume will at least triple by 1970. As much sense as Rivalta Scrivia makes, many of Genoa's stodgier merchants have characteristically fought its development every step of the way. But Costa is determined to see it through. "For too long we have regarded the port as a place to make money," says he. "The time has come to begin thinking about what service we can offer." And of course making more money in the process...