Word: giorgios
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...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars of Paris. Others are of questionable vintage: Giorgio, Mr. Guy, even a Jerry Magnin store that has the temerity to put sale soccer shoes in its window. In all, 60 stores along 2½ blocks of Rodeo Drive rang up sales of $200 million last year...
...drove to the Quirinale Palace to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone. The President immediately began the time-honored ritual of inviting officials of all parties to the Quirinale for talks. Among them: Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, Socialist Party Leader Bettino Craxi, Neo-Fascist M.S.I. Chieftain Giorgio Almirante, and two Christian Democratic veterans, Benigno Zaccagnini and Amintore Fanfani. After all that, Leone asked Andreotti to try to form a new government...
Worries about the virulence of the Italian kidnaping disease were soon reinforced. On the same day as the Ortiz-Patińo abduction, Italian police logged their 60th kidnaping this year. The victim was Giorgio Garbero, 4, grandson of Orfeo Pianelli, a wealthy Turin industrialist The child was seized from his stroller by two men as his grandmother wheeled him home from a park. Before the accompanying guard could reach his revolver, he was clubbed and then blinded by a chemical that one of the kidnapers sprayed in his face. The ransom demand, thought to be the highest in Italian...
Early in the second period St. Louis struck again. Taking a pass from Ellen Hart on the left wing, she out-dueled Smith defender Abbie Ellicott for the ball before turning and ramming a shot worthy of Giorgio Chinaglia into the lower right corner...
...American spectator sport was really born in 1975 when the Cosmos persuaded Pelé to come out of retirement with a $4.75 million, three-year contract to evangelize Americans for soccer. His arrival brought instant respectability to American soccer and helped lure to the U.S. such international stars as Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer of the Cosmos and George Best of the Los Angeles Aztecs. Attendance figures soared wherever Pelé and the Cosmos played, and his very presence in a league city was enough to push soccer to the top of local sports pages...