Word: rome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document available to four doz en men can be kept secret very long, and last week a number of interested Greeks, including King Constantine in his Rome exile, were poring over a very limited printing. It was a draft of the new Greek constitution that the junta led by Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos has promised to submit to voters before Sept. 15 as a major step in returning Greece to normal parliamentary rule...
Taylor's story, as in Sabrina Fair and The Pleasure of His Company, his two best known plays, consists of little beyond a set of circumstances; their resolution is eminently forgettable, but the circumstances are these: a rich American arrives in Rome to fetch his car-crashed father's body, and finds that his father was with a woman when he died, and that the woman's daughter is in Rome too, on the same errand. You can take it from there, but you don't really have to. A third character--a friendly bisexual Italian parasite--serves as catalyst...
Back from Nassau, Obolensky is now off to Paris and Rome to arrange parties for Alexander's president, Alexander Farkas; then he must fly down to Madrid to help an old pal, Angier Biddle Duke, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, give a benefit ball for the Cancer Society. Wherever he goes, there will be entirely too many Beautiful People to round up to leave Serge much time for play. Unless what he does for a living is play enough...
...Paul VI announced that he intended to modernize his Curia, the Vatican's 1,000-man bureaucracy, by bringing in younger clerics, including many more non-Italians. Last week the Pope took a major step toward that goal when he accepted the resignations of two venerable members of Rome's Old Guard...
...minority at the Second Vatican Council. Ottaviani's successor is Yugoslavia's Franjo Cardinal Seper, 62, the Archbishop of Zagreb. As his country's unofficial primate since 1960, Seper (pronounced "shaper") has pursued a course of accommodation with Tito; at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome he was overwhelmingly elected by his fellow prelates to head its commission on theology...