Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ring and humming the overture to Wagner's Parsifal in place of a recording. About a quarter of the 2,000 people who were watching the stage show Salute to New York City stayed on at Radio City Music Hall after the lights went out, snacking on pretzels and Italian ices bought from street vendors who crowded into the foyer. At Shea Stadium, play stopped in the sixth inning, with the Chicago Cubs leading the New York Mets 2 to 1. For about 45 minutes, the 22,000 fans sang along with Organist Jane Jarvis; to take their minds...
...onetime Italian colony that was captured by the British in 1941, Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia, under a United Nations decision, in 1952 and a decade later was formally annexed by Selassie-an action that the Eritreans still regard as outright colonialism. Their outrage sparked a tiny guerrilla uprising that eventually became a full-scale war, perhaps the largest war now being fought anywhere in the world. In the process, reports TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis after touring the savanna and highland battlefront, the Eritreans have built an extraordinarily effective fighting machine of at least 25,000 men equipped with artillery...
...SAUVAGES seems to contain all the necessary ingredients for a screwball romp. One unpredictable beautiful blonde who talks with her mouth full, looks great in men's clothing and covers half of Latin America with a Toulouse-Lautrec stashed under her left armpit. One fiery Italian husband-to-be from whom she is fleeing. One innocent bystander who's unfortunate enough to get caught in a revolving door with the crazed blonde and her duffle bag, and who just happens to have made a fortune in the perfume industry, dropped out of civilization, and live on a tiny deserted island...
...riskier investments than the Eurodollar market. He chose a Liechtenstein-based holding company called Texon Finanzanstalt, which he had founded in 1961. Over the years Kuhrmeier funneled $868 million of Crédit Suisse's Chiasso deposits to Texon. The company then bought stakes in more than 150 Italian companies dealing in, among other things, wine, plastics and vacation resorts...
Revel's survey of Communist behavior persuades him that there is no such thing as Euro-Communism. It is just Stalinism decorated with new promises. As proof, Revel offers the damning evidence of the French and Italian Communist parties. If they mean what they say about permitting a democratic opposition when they come to power, inquires the prosecutor, why do they not allow any dissent within their organizations today? Revel bitterly acknowledges that "doubting their honesty is viewed in the West as being in poor taste...