Word: oriana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oriana Fallaci likes to be disliked...
...found powder burns on their clothes. As some in the crowd fled in panic and others dived to the ground, student snipers opened fire on the troops from surrounding apartments. For ten minutes, massive gun fire reverberated through the plaza, and sporadic gunfire continued for another hour. Italian Authoress Oriana Fallaci, on assignment for L'Europeo magazine, was shot in the back and leg; two men standing beside her were killed. In all, at least 33 civilians and one soldier died, at least 500 were wounded, and 1,650 people were arrested...
What, No Nudges? Over the years be fore Brooks Atkinson's retirement as thi Times's critic last spring, the Kerrs an< Atkinsons became particular friends "What Jean and Oriana thought abou the theater was often more interestm; than what we thought," said Atkinsoi last week. "They were less inhibited. The) were more slashing than we could be." Producer David Merrick, the Shubert Al ley Catiline, came to that conclusion some time ago, claiming that Jean Kerr influenced her husband during performances by a series of codelike nudges. Kerr responded in print with a riposte that made Merrick look like...
When Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe tried out in Wilmington, Del., Star Claudette Colbert realized that the stage adaptation of Oriana Atkinson's Over at Uncle Joe's desperately needed doctoring. "Yet they were just applying poultices where a leg should have been amputated," Claudette recalled. "I asked the producers to close it then and do extensive rewrites-either that or let me out. One of them just turned to me and said, 'I didn't know you were a quitter.' " She stayed, and last week the show had its opening night in New York...
...company P. & 0. group, with 370 ships (2,342,028 g.r.t). From London, the superliner wall sail through the Suez Canal to Australia, then across the Pacific to Vancouver and San Francisco, finally home via the same route. With her sister ship, the still-building, 40,000-ton Oriana, the Canberra will give P. & O. a commanding lead in Pacific passenger travel. Since it first sailed in these waters in 1954, P. & 0. has undercut the luxury-minded Matson and American President lines by emphasizing low-cost tourist-class rates; next year alone, the company will boost its berth facilities...