Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recess was over, and the foreign ministers of East and West headed back to the rote and routine of Geneva. Most of them had sensibly spent the three-week holiday away from their books. France's Couve de Murville took a jaunt with President de Gaulle to Rome and Madagascar. The U.S.'s Christian Herter got in some sailing on the choppy waters of Massachusetts Bay. For Britain's Selwyn Lloyd there were long English weekends at Chequers. Even Russia's Andrei Gromyko presumably took some dour relaxation, though he also returned to Geneva with Khrushchev...
...French viewers were outraged by a décolletage-studded dramatization of the life of Quebec's Mother Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, aired on the day she was beatified in Rome; Members of Parliament clamored for the jobs of the producers...
This summer for the first time, travelers to Rome can explore one of the world's loveliest palaces: the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, on the Corso. One picture gallery has long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent...
...London, Fidel Castro's ambassador said that Trujillo has organized an arms-buying network across Europe, North Africa and the U.S.* Trujillo is believed to have agents and transshippers in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Tunis, London, New York and Rome, negotiating for bazookas, bazooka ammunition, tanks, armored cars, field artillery, shells, even British Vampire jets. He is also said to be recruiting mercenaries, including some from Franco's Spain, who are flown via Bermuda, manifested as farm laborers. Reacting...
...near the top of the LP bestseller list for two months, a remarkable feat for a nonmusical disk. And sociologists, both professional and amateur, see in the sick comedians a symptom of the 20th century's own sickness. Says one: "It's like the last days of Rome-all this horror and mayhem in humor...