Word: gorizia
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...flamboyant Rubbia, born in Gorizia, Italy, is certain to enjoy his half of the approximately $195,000 prize. He owns a yacht and has a hearty appetite, particularly for Italian food. He is impatient with lesser minds than his and is intellectually restless: his current projects range from tracking down the magnetic monopole, another elusive particle, to searching for antimatter...
...Fencer, recently deployed in East Germany, is the first Soviet fighterbomber designed specifically to engage ground targets. Thus, before Washington even has time to decide whether or not to use tactical nuclear weapons, the Soviet Army and its allies might be deep into West Germany, at the Gorizia and Thrace gaps in southeast Europe and into Norway...
...Italy Clare Boothe Luce, who prodded Washington and London into working out a settlement of the nine-year Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia (TIME, Oct. 11), made her first visit to the prize involved in the diplomatic triumph. With top aides from the Rome embassy, she landed at Gorizia Airfield, proceeded by motorcade some 25 miles to the city of Trieste, where waiting citizens waved a welcome and tossed flowers to her. At city hall, she returned to Mayor Gianni Bartoli the 600-year-old manuscript of Italian Poet Francesco Petrarch's Africa, which had vanished from...
Died. Carlo Margotti, 60, Archbishop of Gorizia (near Trieste), who for 17 years took part in the touchy Yugoslav-Italian border disputes; of a heart ailment; in Gorizia, Italy. When Tito's Partisans entered Gorizia in 1945, Margotti was captured and sentenced to death as "an enemy of the Slovene people." Later, his sentence was commuted to banishment from Yugoslav territory...
That afternoon, the Yugoslavs began the trek back, the housewives waving their brooms, the girls their lipsticks. Yugoslav authorities feared that further excursions into the capitalist parts of Gorizia would breed discontent among Tito's subjects. At week's end, Italian newspapers carried a laconic communiqué: "Permits to cross the Italian-Yugoslav frontier will be stopped until further notice...