Word: pasta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extent to which it has hurt pensioners, .civil servants and others on fixed incomes. Beer now costs almost as much in Munich as in Milwaukee-170 a pint. Italian housewives have to pay 290 apiece for oranges that cost them 210 last year, and the common varieties of pasta have risen from 90 a Ib. to 130. In Paris, where the price of steak is $1.22 a Ib. (for biftek, the lean cuts from the round, rump or tip), a cheap restaurant lunch runs to $1.50, and $4 lunches are common. The well-pressed Frenchman...
Roman commuters half expect bus drivers to walk out in the middle of the run, and a housewife never knows when she pops a pasta into the oven whether the gas workers will keep the pressure up until it is baked. The agitation for more pay is intense in Italy because wages are lower there than in most of Europe, but European workers in general are demanding increases at a rate that is bringing them slowly but inexorably toward the U.S. scale...
Among the 2,020,000 European immigrants who have poured into postwar Australia, fully 260,000 have been Italians, mostly from Calabria and Sicily. The newcomers added much that is welcome Down Under, from pizza and pasta to espresso bars and truck gardens. But as Melbourne last week was shaken by the shotgun explosions of gang warfare, Australians became aware that the new Italian immigrants had also brought with them the blood feuds of the Mafia and Camorra, as well as the code of silence induced by omerta (death for informers...
...building a plant near Caserta to produce new building materials developed in Russia and another in Salerno to make aluminum products. Valerio has set up a division to manufacture calculating machines, linked an Edison oil outfit to a U.S. drilling company, and bought a slice of a big Italian pasta maker. But Edison's main thrust will probably be into chemicals, which form the largest base of the new combine...
...Mazzini, and Columbus populate large urban plazas. Street names run from "Venecia" and "Milán" to "José Verdi" and "Arturo Toscanini." Newsstands are thick with Italian magazines, bars flow with Campari, coffee shops with café alia italiana, and restaurateurs serve up steaming hot pizzas, ravioli and pasta frolla-even if they cannot always spell the names. Argentine men favor Italian-style stovepipe trousers and moccasins; many women are forsaking French styles for designers like Simonetta and Pucci...