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Other small miracles abounded. In the city's Colonia Roma district, a residential area adorned with scatterings of art nouveau and art deco architecture, Ramona Saldana Martinez, 30, described her survival after the collapse of a six-story apartment building. She and two of her children were removed from the wreckage after 22 hours. Said Martinez: "My mother died instantly. My twelve-year-old son also died. The wall and the ceilings came down on us, but I could breathe. I stripped some wallpaper to let the air come...
...principal setting for Glengarry Glen Ross, the real cutthroat swordsmanship is for the most promising "leads" (lists of hot prospects); from these come "sits" (in-person meetings with the customer) and the hallowed "closing" of the deal. This month the agency is holding a contest among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just...
...awesome wall of North Atlantic fog closed in around her. But the ship's mood as she neared the U.S. was fog-free and gay. In the plush, boat deck Belvedere lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight-piece orchestra. Their last song: Arrivederci, Roma...
...Notte a Roma--Sunday at 7:30 p.m.; Harvard-Epworth Church...
...members. So were such military figures as Admiral Giovanni Torrisi, the Defense Chief of Staff; General Giulio Grassini, chief of the Interior Ministry's secret intelligence service; and General Giuseppe Santovito, head of the Military Information and Security Service. Financiers included a top official of the Banco di Roma, Italy's third largest bank, and a former director-general of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the country's largest...