Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starts, as it often does, with the home. There were three boys, Giaff and Cameron and Grayson, then three girls, Francesca, Catherine, and Virginia, and finally a last boy, Phillip. Giovanni and Georgette Ferrante were prodigious babymakers, and they housed their family in a 200-year-old farmhouse in Kingston...
...Giovanni had played soccer in college, and when he introduced the game to his sons, they took to it quickly. The Gym became a place where the guys hung out to kick the soccer ball around, and as Catherine, the middle daughter, had always been athletic, it was only natural that her interest was perked and she joined them...
...Giovanni G. Fazio, Paul Gorenstein, John L Kohl and William H. Parkinson each have an experiment that has been accepted by NASA for use in the so-called "space lab" flights of the space shuttle slated to begin in 1983. During the space-lab missions, the back bay of the Columbia--which has been empty in these preliminary flights--will be filled with 12 or more astronomical experiments...
...Giovanni Fazio, who is also a lecturer on Astronomy, is the only Harvard scientist with a definite slot for his experiment--on space lab II, the shuttle's 22nd flight, now scheduled for 1984. Fazio's proposal is a telescope designed to detect regions in the galaxy where stars are being born. On earth such a telescope is cluttered by infrared rays from "atmospheric junk," Fazio explains. An infrared telescope on the space shuttle, however, would be expected to collect more accurate and complete data...
...mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past the "Inn of the Red Crawfish";-where the fox and cat plotted against Pinocchio-built by Architect Giovanni Michelucci as the entrance to the park. In other cities and villages across Italy film shows, art exhibits and seminars are extolling the magic of the story, while the Italian Soccer Federation adopted Pinocchio as its emblem for European Cup matches...