Word: genoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tunnel entrance, Swiss and Italian formalities are handled in a single customs office, and drivers pay the fares, ranging from 90? for a motorbike to $18 for a bus. The neon-lit tunnel, 14 ft. 9 in. high, rides over a pipeline that brings oil from Genoa to a Swiss refinery at Collombey. The new St. Bernard, which will be formally inaugurated by the presidents of Italy and Switzerland in June, is the world's longest auto tunnel. But not for long. The Mt. Blanc tunnel of over seven miles from France to Italy will surpass it when...
...biggest stabile yet, Teodelapio, Duke of Spoleto, created for the 1962 Spoleto Festival, weighs 30 tons, looms 59 ft. high, and could only be assembled for the festival with the help of shipyard cranes in Genoa. Calder's first, more sylphlike stabile was created in 1931 when he was absorbing surrealism from Joan Miro and Jean Arp. From them he learned the art of expressing the forms of living things in the context and materials of the machine age. As the stabiles' dimensions have grown more mammoth, so have their artistic strength and lean, linear elegance...
...died at 50 in May 1814, after contracting a chill at an outdoor reception, 20,000 people filed past her bier and Paris was flooded with pamphlets hailing la bonne Josephine. Bonaparte was virtually the last to get the news. A valet clipped the story out of a Genoa newspaper and sent it to the former Emperor on Elba...
...Roads, dams, efficiency and the smile of rulers-that is all that matters; but spirit, freedom, joy, happiness, truth, man-that never enters the mind. A world of perfect technicians is the aim, not a world of human beings, let alone of beings divine." Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Archbishop of Genoa and an ecclesiastical manager who has often written on the deeper problems of management, added that "men who work today do not only ask for efficiency but for an efficiency that renders some service. Man feels the need to create." The cardinal urged the managers to show each worker where...
...simplicity and naivete are amazing," says Actor James Mason, "and he comes through it all with great success. He's like a little boy who never doubts his daydreams will come true." He has the Midas touch. For John Paul Jones, he bought two proud vessels in Genoa that promptly ran aground on the Spanish coast, unseaworthy and unsalvageable. He had been taken by the crafty Genoese. But he has since rented the relics to other film companies in search of fresh shipwrecks (Billy Budd, Damn the Defiant), not only recovering his entire investment but also making...