Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words, "a red-hot Socialist" who railed on street corners against the system that was crushing his father. Today, as a well-to-do lawyer, he is closer to Goldwater in his economic philosophy, has written a number of books with titles like Make Everybody Rich and Be a Capitalist or Be Damned...
...widely exported musical forms, fado has been taken abroad successfully by only one singer: Amália Rodrigues. Last week, at the behest of Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, she made her U.S. concert debut with the New York Philharmonic as part of its summer Promenades series. Singing fado in the rich expanse of Philharmonic Hall-with the audience sitting at café tables sipping champagne and munching Fritos-seemed as out of place as singing spirituals in a salon. But no matter. The slight, darkly beautiful Amalia created her own special atmosphere. She put on her black shawl and, backed...
Back home in Italy they are dubbed Gli Insabbiati - literally, "buried in the sand." Abroad, some 25,000 expatriate engineers, surveyors, carpenters, me chanics and truck drivers have helped make Italy a major force in the rich, ruggedly competitive field of interna tional construction. The Gli Insabbiati started with projects in the deserts of North Africa - hence their nickname -but now they are spreading around the world. More and more, they resemble the Caesars' legions, who two millennia ago built highways, aqueducts and cities from Scotland to Syria...
...introduced to the strange John Godfrey sanctuary, where the Man who Listens soothes the frightened and despairing of the world. This time the sad samples who pour out their case histories include a minister who has lost his faith, a 33-year-old playboy who never grew up, a rich man who has nothing except money, and a Negro agonizing over a life lived as a symbol. The book is not yet among the top ten bestsellers, but Taylor Caldwell's constant readers should put it there...
...Rich but jobless, Bob Evans borrowed Simon's technique, picked up companies with sound products but sagging profits, swiftly turned them into solid moneymakers. Among them: firms that make small gasoline engines, industrial fixtures, furniture (Widdecomb) and machines that paint white lines down the middle of roads. Having sold two firms last year "to get some money to play with," Evans decided to buy into A.M.C. because its stock was selling for only 60% of the company's net worth...