Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their way to Mass at the Church of San Domenico step gingerly past a giant iron spider. Families sipping Campari in a sidewalk cafe ponder a guitar cut from steel and mounted on a flatcar. All over town, modern sculptures of bronze and steel and iron loom over fountains, peer from alleys (see color}. Now that the initial shock is wearing off, the Spoletani are getting used to and even beginning to like what they see, and art lovers from outside are ecstatic...
After it was over, Britain's Lord Taylor, a bluff Labor Party peer and an architect of the British National Health Service, last week gave Saskatchewan a doctor's order. "This province has had a major operation," said he. "I prescribe for it absolute rest." The major operation was the settlement of the bitter, 22-day strike of Saskatchewan's doctors, who closed their offices rather than practice under the Socialist government's new compulsory medical insurance scheme...
Further threatening titled monogamy is the manner in which women set their caps for a peer ("One day he'll come along, the duke I love," Nancy Mitford's sister Deborah, now Duchess of Devonshire, once prophetically crooned). Especially guilty, says Hall, are American women, who represent "the most substantial marital hazard." Says Statustician Hall: "They are just that much more unstable than, say, a clergyman's daughter. Some 43% of second and third marriages by English peers to American women have so far broken up. Let's face it, if a peer marries an American...
Died. Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, 99, Britain's oldest peer, who was still spry enough to take at age 89 as his third wife the daughter of an Indian Parsi high priest; in Monte Carlo...
After Paris, Dean Rusk flew to West Berlin and then to Bonn. The Berlin stop was a formality, a mere 2¾-hour duty visit to sign the city's famed Golden Book, confer briefly with Mayor Willy Brandt, peer over the Wall. Although Rusk predicted that some day this "affront to human dignity" would come down, sensitive Berliners complained that the Rusk visit had been perfunctory...