Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies; General Motors, IBM and Ford are the only U.S. non-oil firms in their class. In size, the Sisters easily match many of the nations they deal with. Exxon's assets ($38 billion) and Shell's sales ($39 billion last year) are about equal to the Italian national budget...
...Italian Film Director Bernardo Bertolucci was back in his home town of Parma, scouting locations for his new movie, La Luna, starring Jill Clayburgh. Seeing perhaps with the eyes of his imagination, the director stumbled over a No Parking sign and broke both his elbows. Not one to let so minor an inconvenience as arm-length casts deter him, Bertolucci was back on the set in two weeks, using a long wooden holder for his view finder. "When I started to direct this film," he said, "I already had a heavy responsibility as director and co-author of the screenplay...
...concentrate on his other job in Boston. Minnesota has grabbed two top Europeans: Britain's Neville Marriner as music director and Germany's Klaus Tennstedt as principal guest conductor. Los Angeles is easily the high roller in the game. It has captured Carlo Maria Giulini, 64, an Italian who is considered a master among maestros-but after having lost Zubin Mehta, 42, to New York...
Probably half of the 111 Cardinal-electors went into the conclave still undecided. But most were fairly convinced that the Pope would, once again, have to be an Italian. Even many Asians and Africans, whose numbers are growing and whose concerns often differ from their brother Cardinals in Europe and the New World, conceded that an Italian was needed to handle the delicate role the papacy still must play in Italy's uncertain politics. Beyond that some Cardinals feared that any non-Italian might give a threatening new tilt to the Vatican...
...first ballot the votes were hopelessly dispersed among a broad scattering of realistic as well as throwaway names. By the second, taken right the lines began to grow clear. No non-Italian figured prominently on the tally sheet that each Cardinal marked as the names were called out. No Italian had anywhere near the necessary 75 votes (two-thirds of the conclave plus one). Nor did any have a discernible lead. But the main competition seemed to be between the principal Curial and pastoral candidates...