Word: giovannis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fabbri brothers-Giovanni, 43, Dino, 41, and Rino, 36-started with a small textbook company after World War II. Shrewdly figuring that Italy's growing middle class had both an urge to learn and an eagerness to buy almost anything on the installment plan, the Fabbris decided to turn out books that sell like magazines. Their first offering, a four-volume encyclopedia issued in 48 weekly installments at 350 each, has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted 3,000,000 customers. The Fabbris followed up with serialized encyclopedias of science, sport, fairy tales and the arts, prepared...
...been the wish of my life to visit the Holy Land," wrote Giovanni Battista Montini, then Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan, to a bishop friend in November 1962. Last week, in his final address to the Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI surprised the prelates by announcing that he will indeed visit the holy places of Jordan and Israel on a three-day trip next month. It will be the first papal voyage outside Italy since Napoleon forced the unhappy Pius VII to take up residence at Fontainebleau in 1812, and the first time since the days of St. Peter that...
...deal was promptly and bitterly attacked by foes from all sides. Nenni's pro-Communist wing continued to denounce it as a sellout to the bourgeoisie. Liberal Spokesman Giovanni Malagodi said the coalition heads Italy "directly toward Communist shores." Comrade Palmiro Togliatti sneered at Nenni's claim that the Socialists would change things once they got into government, and snapped: "We could define such a vision of power as Stalinist...
...Elsa knew how to use it. In print she staged a schoolgirl crush over the late Aly Khan and an insult-fest with Opera Star Maria Callas. When she suddenly turned into a devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...
Interim Premier Giovanni Leone's recent attempt to curb credit was shot down by the right, left and center, since no party is willing to incur the wrath of legions of cambiali signers. But unless Italy soon brings its credit binge under control, its economic miracle could, like a butterfly, just flutter away...