Word: numeros
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...girl who died of lockjaw? That she was tightlipped. And tongue-tied. That she loved Mao and Che, and brown rice sprinkled with soybeans and sunflower seeds. And me. She never told me what the order was, which somehow still bugs me. Family tradition was always to be numero uno, don't you know...
...early spring we were ready for a trip to the family manse in New Jersey. Myrna and I planned to get married. Behind the great iron gates, everything seemed in order. The gardeners lowered their tommy guns in silent homage to the next numero uno; the killer dogs snarled welcome. Two Congressmen and three mayors walked out of the front door...
...punch, that after he had been counted out he bounced back to his feet. What did matter to the sellout crowd of 13,000 at Madrid's Sports Palace was that Spain had its first European heavyweight champion in 37 years?and at last Spanish sport had a Numero Uno to lead the nation out of the doldrums of bad bulls and mediocre matadors...
...such troubles plagued the members of TIME'S Rome bureau as they traveled across Italy, assessing the impact of Agnelli and his fellow industrialists on every aspect of Italian life. Bureau Chief James Bell, who concentrated on the man who is known to his countrymen as "Numero Uno," was surprised by the utter plainness of Agnelli's office above his factory in Turin. To Bell, it was "the sort of place you might expect the smelter superintendent of a Montana copper mine to have." Then the interview moved to Agnelli's chalet on the top of Turin...
...most widely admired and envied Italian industrialist-the Numero Uno-is Giovanni Agnelli, the head of automaking Fiat. Turin-based Fiat, which has produced four out of every five cars on Italy's roads, has done more than any other Italian firm to shape the country's new affluence at home and influence abroad. "Agnelli has a mythology not unlike President Kennedy's," writes British Journalist Anthony Sampson in The New Europeans. "Clearly his presence fills some kind of psychological...