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...worshipers' attention on a central event. The newest and perhaps most striking round church in the U.S.. the Church of the Priory of St. Mary and St. Louis, was consecrated this month near St. Louis. Designed by Gyo Obata, with engineering consultation from Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, the church is a confection of thin concrete shells resembling nuns' coifs. tiered like a giant pudding mold. On top of the graceful central lantern is the slenderest of crosses. Says Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis: "It is an outstanding demonstration of the ingenuity...
Only the formula is Lanza's-a mixture of show tunes, sentimental Italian love songs and an occasional operatic aria. At Luigi's nightclub in Atlantic City last week, Stuarti was first heard as an offstage voice throbbing out Yours Is My Heart Alone; by the time he sailed into the last bars he was standing in a lavender spot, stage center, teeth gleaming to the glow of applause. After that, in a handsome dramatic-tenor voice, Stuarti worked through such standards as If Ever I Would Leave You, Arrivederci, Roma, Sorrento, Three Coins in the Fountain...
...international legal scholar whose unremitting and persistent effort has brought nearer to reality the dream of a united Europe. Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architectural engineer...
...their trade. The Reds fear that this trade will be sharply cut as the Six deal more among themselves and less with nonmembers across the tariff wall, and that Communist trade will be clobbered in non-European markets by competition from the Six. To visiting Italian Foreign Trade Minister Luigi Preti, Khrushchev complained last week that the partnership between capitalist countries "is a marriage against nature, and nature will see it broken. In this marriage, there are not two sexes, male and female, only two males...
...conclusion to his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, Pier Luigi Nervi last night looked into the future to a "vast and spacious architecture" constructed a strict obedience to physical law while maintaining an intrinsic appeal to man's aesthetic sense...