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Word: podesta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diocese of Nueve de Julio, Bishop Antonio Quarracino stressed that there were no ties whatsoever between the church and the new regime. "The church," he said, "does not seek privileges or political tasks. It demands only liberty in exercising its mission." A few days later, Bishop Jerónimo Podesta, 46, leader of Buenos Aires' diocese of Avellaneda (pop. 1,200,000), went on record in the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana. "The church," he noted, "wants to serve the modern world, and this does not mean to serve such and such a government. Identification with any political regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Trouble from the Pulpits | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...third European Jane is Italy's Rossana Podesta, who appears in The Seven Golden Men as a member of an international gang of bank robbers. In a Goldfingerish effort to rob the vaults of Geneva's Union de Banques Suisses, she is a glowing decoy, dressed in a luminescent lace leotard and equipped with a lipstick microphone, a powder-case television eye, and a sapphire clip that turns out to be a two-way radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The 007 Girls | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

Fresh-flower partisans deplore the trend. "Plastic flowers don't have a soul," says Chicago Florist Audie Staup. "Real flowers have a message; plastic ones don't." Adds Edward Goeppner, managing partner of San Francisco's huge Podesta-Baldocchi florist firm: "I sometimes ask a friend who has artificial flowers in his home if he has a stuffed dog, too." Paradoxically, the bogus-blossom boom has not yet cut severely into fresh-flower sales. Explains Goeppner: "Artificial flowers remind one to buy fresh flowers." Nevertheless, most flower shops hedge their bets by stocking the phonies. "We never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste: A Rose Is Not a Rose | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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