Word: roma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became global commuters in 1962 helped to increase the volume of international air travel by 20%. From Scotland to Singapore, the button-down collar was as familiar a symbol of the footloose businessman as the carpetbag in the Reconstruction South. To welcome the new invaders, the Banco di Roma issued a fat catalogue of investment opportunities in English. Berlitz, which had only 300 U.S. executives studying on company time in its language schools in 1952, had 3,000 last year, even though most businessmen sit down overseas expecting to talk only English and the universal language of money...
...STORY OF WINE IN CALIFORNIA, by M.F.K. Fisher and Max Yavno (125 pp.; University of California; $15). For Mr. Gallo to give to Mr. Roma. White, umber and sienna jacket...
...Heart Alone; by the time he sailed into the last bars he was standing in a lavender spot, stage center, teeth gleaming to the glow of applause. After that, in a handsome dramatic-tenor voice, Stuarti worked through such standards as If Ever I Would Leave You, Arrivederci, Roma, Sorrento, Three Coins in the Fountain. The evening ended with a tearful Danny...
...drift around the room, mike in hand, gazing smokily into the eyes of ringside ladies, who invariably gaze smokily back. Or he may rip open his collar, tear off his string bow tie and mutter: "Now I can really get down to work." When he sings Arrivederci, Roma, he breaks off to speak of his mother: "I wish she were here. From the back of the room you'd hear her little voice saying 'Thatza...
KENMORE: A film version of Alberto Moravia's TWO WOMEN, which goes by the same name. A portrayal of the almost incredibly stark life of the Italian peasantry during the Second World War's Italian campaign. Sophia Loren and her film-land daughter (anonymous) leave bomb-strafed Roma only to find privation, and the sex-starved troops of three nations. Climax of the film comes in a deserted hillside church were a platoon of North African irregulars make off with daughter's virtue and mother's dignity. If "The Virgin Spring" dismayed you, stay away from this. Evenings...