Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin said that he took the papers out of Saigon at the last minute and put them in a U.S. Justice Department office in Rome, where he had once served as ambassador. Last December he flew back to Rome to retrieve the documents. After returning to Washington, he drove home with them to Winston-Salem and simply had not got around to unloading the trunk. His intention, he said, was to give the papers to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, after he had finished annotating them...
...Iranian students abroad, there were no such restrictions. Demonstrators in Rome and London fasted to protest the Shah's policies, while masked protesters in Paris, San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles and in front of the White House in Washington took to the streets to bring what they called "the true nature of the Iranian people's uprising" to the world's attention. It will be some time before Iran's springtime is reality...
Each evening they stroll through the streets of Rome, she holding fondly on to his arm. Then Author Simone de Beauvoir, 70, and Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 73, sit and sip aperitifs at an outdoor cafe and dine in their favorite restaurants in the Piazza Navona. The Parisian couple's mutual devotion during 49 years of intimacy is nearly matched by their attachment to Rome-where they have spent part of every summer for the past 25 years. "We have no work plans at all right now," says Beauvoir. "We're just enjoying our vacation." As a friend...
...dedicated Italophile, McDaniel traveled extensively throughout the Italian peninsula and wrote "Roman Private Life and Its Survivals," a book that compared and contrasted modern Italy and ancient Rome...
...heart was in Rome, wandering its ruins. In 1745 he managed to get back there for good as agent for a Venetian printmaker. He married the daughter of Prince Corsini's gardener, who brought him a small dowry that proved enough to let him start his major work on Roman antiquities. In it he looked on Rome's neglected ruins with the eye of a romantic and the knowledge of an engineer...