Word: piazzas
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SCATTERING the ever-present pigeons before them, stocky Bavarians strode across the Piazza San Marco, stopping to admire the lofty 11th century basilica, where Christian knights knelt in prayer before setting out on the Fourth Crusade. Not far away, American tourists surveyed the vaulted arches whose proud occupants once presided over Medieval Europe's richest and most powerful city-state. More leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel...
Along the walls of the piazza, a sadly dated message could still be read: WE WILL CARRY EVER FORWARD THE FORCE, THE CIVILIZATION AND THE CULTURE OF ROME: BELIEVE, OBEY, FIGHT . . . DUCE, DUCE, DUCE. Yet modern history, Mussolini included, had passed Torregreca by. The imposing ducal palace was actually chopped up into "a squalid maze of schoolrooms and government offices, each with a stovepipe sticking drunkenly out of a window." Change was the shallowest of facades, mostly visible as ruin. A "cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office...
...with genteel Republican merrymaking, beginning with an All-American Gala in the District of Columbia Armory, produced by Ed McMahon of the Tonight Show (see TELEVISION). For $10 to $100 a ticket, the guests will get Ed and his boss Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Marguerite Piazza, Tony Bennett, Hugh O'Brian and Hines, Hines & Dad. The night before Inauguration, Salt Lake City's 350-strong Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Soprano Anna Moffo and Pianist Andre Watts will hold forth at a concert honoring the President-elect and his Vice President in Constitution Hall; the house...
...freshman meet saw a complete reversal of the varsity results. Penn ace Julio Piazza smashed Dave Pottetti's meet record by more than forty seconds and led a 15-48 victory over the Crimson frosh...
Aided by such latent discontent, the students achieved maximum results with a minimum of effort. Several dozen pranced sporadically around and through the exhibition grounds. Others countered the tenors serenading tourists' gondolas by singing the Internationale or scuffled desultorily with police in the Piazza San Marco. The commissioner of the Swedish pavilion backed them up, explaining that the 1,000 police swarming about the grounds created "a spiritual climate in which we could not present works." The Russian exhibit arrived late. Three of the four artists in the French pavilion closed their exhibits...