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...reporting on Dubrovnik in the cover story on "Europe's Secret Capitals," about some of our appealing smaller cities [Aug. 30]. You could have more explicitly mentioned, however, the Italian influence on Dubrovnik in past centuries, especially on its architecture and even its ancient Italian name: Ragusa. Roberto Macchia Livorno, Italy...
...also insinuated himself for a time deeply into the life of Picasso: "Everything in [him] tended toward purity in art. His insupportable pride, his black ingratitude, his haughtiness." But Modigliani sprang after all from a proud and unconventional family. He was born in the Tuscan port town of Livorno, a cosmopolitan city where Jews had lived freely since the Renaissance. Educated and progressive--his mother shocked her in-laws by starting a private school; his socialist brother was jailed for his political activities--his family had once been prosperous as well. But by the time of his birth...
...carrier America, meantime, left the port of Livorno, Italy, as scheduled yesterday. But that ship has been told to remain under way at sea instead of heading toward a second port call in France, the sources said...
Shrouded under tarpaulin on the docks of the Italian port of Livorno are more than 200 American heavy tanks. They have been sitting there, running up storage bills of $1,000,000 a year, since 1967. The beached tanks had been loaded aboard ships bound for Greece, but they were diverted to Livorno when Greece's Premier George Papadopoulos and his fellow colonels seized power and imposed martial law on the country. Reacting to the storm of international protest over the colonels' refusal to restore civilian rule, Washington suspended the flow of U.S. arms...
...WENDT Livorno, Italy...