Word: piazza
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...middle of the stage, with fish and book wagons rolled in, becomes the New Exchange, a fashionable center of commerce; and, with the wagons withdrawn, it serves as the colonnaded piazza of Covent Garden. At the right we have Pinchwife's stylish country-house drawing-room, and a flight of stairs leading up to a bedchamber containing a large canopied...
This year may be a different story, although Penn still must be rated the favorite. Missing from last year's squad are stars Karl Thornton and Julio Piazza--both graduated--and Dave Merrick, who transfered to Michigan State...
Looking toward the future, Harvard's chances for overall success--which in recent years has meant defeating Penn--look fairly bright if the squad can coalesce. Penn's top runners, Julio Piazza and Karl Thornton, graduated last year, and Tom Merrick has left school, thus weakening the Philadelphia squad. The team remains strong, however, and will still be hard to best...
...from ancient balconies and sinking quays last Saturday, Pope Paul VI was ferried in a gondola from the mouth of Venice's Grand Canal to the quay of St. Mark's. Beneath the gleaming mosaics of the basilica, he prayed briefly, addressed a throng assembled in the Piazza San Marco, and then journeyed to nearby Udine to celebrate an open-air Mass at the 18th National Eucharistic Congress. In keeping with his pledge to be "an apostle on the move," the Pope made his 15th trip outside the environs of Rome, his sixth within Italy...
...American lady vacationing in Italy seeks advice at the American consulate in Florence. She gets a crisp brush-off from a pompous young vice consul. "I pay your salary, young man," she protests, but in vain. That scene in Olivia de Havilland's 1962 movie, Light in the Piazza, often evokes a knowing chuckle from seasoned American travelers. U.S. consuls have a reputation-sometimes deserved, frequently not-of being coldly impervious to fellow citizens in distress. Now that the expanding but unreliable charter-flight business is leaving a growing number of travelers high and dry (TIME, Sept...