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Boarding the naval transport Les Eclaireurs one day last month, Argentine Minister of Marine Anibal O. Olivieri slipped out of the port of Bahia Blanca, bound for a quiet inspection of his country's Antarctic bases. The Buenos Aires em bassy of Great Britain, which has long claimed the area in which the Argentines have been setting up bases, was not caught napping. Les Eclaireurs was soon joined by Her Majesty's frigate St. Austell Bay, off Deception Island, 600 miles south of Cape Horn. Signaled St. Austell Bay to Les Eclaireurs'. "To the Argentine Naval Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: Iceberg Manners | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...paid a formal call on the admiral, his senior in rank. With im peccable punctilio, he asked permission to show his orders from the British Ad miralty "to escort the ship of the Argentine minister while it is navigating in the waters of Her Majesty." Not to be outdone, Olivieri replied that he would be pleased to act as guide for the British ship as long as it was navigating in Argentine waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: Iceberg Manners | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Later Les Eclaireurs upped anchor; so did St. Austell Bay. Together the ships proceeded toward Hope Bay. There, under the watchful attention of the British frigate, Admiral Olivieri went ashore to open a new Argentine military base. With the base formally established, he unveiled a bust of the late Eva Peron presented for the purpose by the taxi drivers of Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: Iceberg Manners | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Momi's years of service, the towermen could remember her making only one misstep-that terrible time when, by accident, she stepped on a signal button on the tower control panel and brought a fast express screeching to a stop on the tracks below. Tower Master Eugenio Olivieri picked Momi up by the scruff of the neck that day and threw her out of the window, but Momi, battered and limping, returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Cat of Cats | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...more days to finish Lucrezia when he died of heart disease. Elsa Respighi promised to write the last 42 pages, and better than anyone alive was she qualified to do so. When she was a pretty, dark-eyed girl at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo dreamed of being a composer and an opera star. She learned composition from Respighi, wrote songs, a symphonic poem, a dance suite, a fairy tale opera. In 1919 Respighi married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Widow's Night | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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