Word: rome
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Gucci's success has spawned imitators on five continents. The firm maintains staffs in Rome, London and New York City to ferret out the increasingly sophisticated fakes that are drawing off millions of dollars a year in sales...
MARRIED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress and autobiographer (Choices); and Donald Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; both for the second time; in Rome, where she has just finished a new film, Let's Hope It's a Girl. The marriage service, held in a Protestant church, followed by two days a private civil ceremony at city hall...
Readers of dozens of newspapers in the U.S. and elsewhere may have been puzzled last week at the premiere appearance of a new syndicated columnist: Pope John Paul II. Rome was not amused. A spokesman for the Vatican press office, Monsignor Giulio Nicolini, denounced the so-called column, which in fact was a hodgepodge of writings by John Paul on apartheid and other topics, as "inadmissible." No one, stated Nicolini, could claim exclusive, commercial rights to selections from John Paul's pronouncements. - The column was to be the first in a series of John Paul's statements compiled by Alfred...
...believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers, Macon always feels the urge to shorten his itinerary and return home...
Many cities are moving to cut down on crime. In Rome authorities are keeping a close watch on prostitutes who specialize in fleecing foreigners, while in Paris some 150 plainclothesmen are now mixing with crowds in tourist haunts. The Spanish tourist ministry has issued a leaflet with tips on avoiding muggings. Gearing up for next month's Oktoberfest, officers in Munich, who claim their city is Europe's safest, will be on the lookout not only for German pickpockets but for American miscreants. They arrest over a hundred U.S. citizens each year during the beery festival. The offense: drunk driving...