Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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His embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are...
Second in power only to Valletta in Italian private industry is coldly handsome Count Carlo Faina, chairman of the giant Montecatini chemical complex. Despite an aristocratic heritage-he holds a longstanding title granted by Pope Pius IX and confirmed by the Italian royal family-Faina joined Montecatini 35 years ago...
From the U.S., which adopted decimal coinage in 1792, to South Africa, which made the change in 1961, 145 countries have decimalized their currency; Britain is the last major bastion of currency confusion. In school alone, according to an Australian survey, decimalization would save teachers up to 50% of the...
Despite their eagerness to get a piece of Unilever, even some of Wall Street's professionals had only an imperfect notion of what they were buying into. And to the ordinary investor Unilever presents an even hazier image. Few U.S. housewives realize that they are fattening Unilever's...
But perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz...