Word: il
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time to find himself guffaw-deep in a whole new farce with La Pira. This time the unwitting agent of humiliation was his own Biancarosa. Aiming to rescue La Pira's and her husband's image, she had invited the chief editor of the rightist satirical weekly Il Borghese, one of La Pira's harshest critics, to meet the old family friend-certain that his personal charm would carry the day. The editor came to the Fanfani apartment atop Rome's Monte Mario hill, expecting the Saint to talk about "saints and santoni [sarcastically, big saints...
More Remarkable. The sudden merger and sales activity is the more remarkable because only two years ago Montecatini was in deep trouble. The company, whose products range from aluminum to antibiotics, expanded too rapidly during Il Boom, found itself strapped by ambitious commitments, soaring wages and increased building costs when Il Sboom-the recession-hit Italy. Unable to obtain a needed $72 million loan in a shrinking capital market, Faina skipped a dividend for only the second time in 18 years, looked around for other relief. He found it in a partnership under which the Royal Dutch/Shell Group...
...balance, humanity applauds her impulse-yet man has not been winning his worldwide war on illiteracy. International experts estimate there are some 35 million more "functional" il literates today than ten years ago, possibly a billion in all. Even in percentage of total population, illiteracy has dropped only about 2% since 1950, still stands at roughly...
...beautiful 5,000-meter race Saturday against the Russians," said the President, in a rare mood as he visited the National Sports Institute in Paris' Bois de Vincennes. "Of course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France's national basketball team. "You and I certainly look at problems in the same manner," quipped the 6-ft. 4-in. general...
...more than a decade, the most reliably raucous of Peking's Asian allies was North Korea's Kim Il Sung. No longer. Since early this year, Kim has been steering an increasingly independent course. To Moscow's delight and Peking's chagrin, Kim & ; Co. chose to keep silent in the current Indo-Pakistani crisis; even over the explosive issue of Viet Nam, North Korea has been less vitriolic than Peking wishes...