Word: romagna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from high prices to bad schools. While not gaining nearly so much as in 1963, the Reds did increase their majority .04% over their total in last year's parliamentary elections. They gained in central Italy, tightened their hold on the "Red belt" of Tuscany, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna, became the biggest party in Florence. The Christian Democrats were off more than 1% from last year, 3% from 1960, and lost 59 provincial council seats throughout the country. The Nenni Socialists slipped badly. Of the minor parties, only the conservative Liberals continued to grow. The party position...
...fast but not fast enough, discreet but not discreet enough. He had served four Presidents, mastered Churchill's stutter and Eisenhower's wayward syntax, but the new tempo of the White House was not his, and last week Official Stenographer Jack Romagna was unceremoniously fired. The sacking left correspondents morosely pondering a final, unanswered question: Was Romagna's fatal mistake marking the transcript of a presidential telephone talk "From the White House swimming pool...
Seasickness v. Bach. To gird for the New Frontier. Romagna endlessly replayed tapes of the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates, worked up an assortment of new shorthand symbols to fit New Frontier talk. One graceful jiggle of the Romagna pen, for example, expands into 13 words...
...Frontier bustle gives Romagna less time than ever for his other consuming interests: his wife, his two children, chess (he has 140 games going simultaneously by mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
These days, there is only one small sign that Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command...