Word: rome
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...tobacco raiser, Joe Alsop idled, read and ate his way through adolescence. Groton and Harvard, emerging a 5 ft. 9 in., 245-Ib. magna cum laude dandy addicted to French cuffs and French pastry, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the decay of ancient civilizations-Egypt, the Mayans, Greece and Rome. By then it was clear that Joe had no real interest in the law, which was the career his parents had decided on, and he was dispatched to the New York Herald Tribune...
Died. Celso Cardinal Costantini, 82, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, longtime apostolic delegate in China; in Rome. The death of Cardinal Costantini reduced the College of Cardinals to 54 and its Italian membership...
...flight was a prelude to the start of scheduled commercial flights between New York and Paris this week, and between New York and London Nov. 16. Still up in the air are flights to Rome. Though Rome last week gave technical clearance to the 707s to operate from Ciampino Airport, the Italian government has so far refused "political" clearance, may force Pan Am to fly its jet passengers from Paris to Rome in prop planes until the clearance comes through...
Hours later Dulles announced a typically personal piece of diplomacy: after attending the Pope's funeral in Rome and conferring with Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd in Britain, he would ride his converted Boeing KC-135 jet over the pole, be on Formosa for planning talks with Chiang by midweek. One area of likely discussion: if the Communist cease-fire becomes "dependable," the Nationalists could thin out their forces on Quemoy and Matsu in exchange for a guarantee of increased-but nonatomic-U.S. firepower...