Word: rome
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Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated American male who blusters and protests while remaining the tool of his pert, soft-spoken but granite-willed wife. Here he is played by Joseph Bologna, she by the adept but woefully misused Barbara Harris. Hubby coaches a hapless professional basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. He makes a good enough living, however. His suburban home is roomy, wellappointed, and chock-full of kids-three when...
...Died. Pietro Germi, 60, Italian film director (Divorce-Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Alfredo, Alfredo); of liver disease; in Rome. Germi's Academy Award-winning Divorzio in 1961 was the first of a series of films that marked him as a superb tragicomedian who manufactured social slapstick from the hypocrisies of Italian...
...widespread Christian influence in schools and universities. In a 1950 speech, Premier Chou En-lai promised religious freedom, and the country's 1954 constitution guaranteed it. Faith, nevertheless, soon became heavily politicized. Chinese Christians were cut off from foreign-mission boards and, in the case of Catholics, from Rome...
...exile has been futile, costly and unhappy. He was criticized for the ineffectiveness of his resistance to Greece's military regime as well as for his continued financial dependence on it. He and his wife, Anne-Marie of Denmark, 28, moved last spring from their estate outside Rome to a comfortable but hardly imposing house in the suburbs of London. With a household staff of three and a personal secretary for the King, they live almost like newlyweds, with furniture borrowed from her family. It was here that Constantine granted TIME'S William McWhirter his only recent interview...
P.L.O. are to kill civilians, and their prime targets are athletes (Munich), tourists (Lod, Athens, Rome), women and children (school buses, Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot, Bet She'an). Nobody, including the U.N., can change the basic fact that by its avowed goal and its tactics, the P.L.O. is a murderers' gang...