Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American influences, borne by the G.I.'s, have permeated the whole of Italy. The Rome police force travels about in a fleet of jeeps; chewing gum is in fashion; there is a coke stand on the roof of the cathedral in Milan. Coke even has a local competitor, a watery ersatz called "Presidento Cola," which comes in conical bottles...
...urchins had lots of prey. American students, lured by a dreamy conception of sunny Italy drawn from Browning, Fine Arts 11, and "The Lays of Ancient Rome," came down in swarms from France and Switzerland. In Venice, St. Mark's square looked as though all of Harvard had been transferred there for the summer term, and if you got lost in the incredible tangle of streets and canals in other parts of the city, it was a sure bot you could spot a seersucker jacket and follow it back to familiar ground...
...rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
After eleven months of divorce (following 14 months of marriage), Doris ("Richest Blonde in the World") Duke, 36. and second husband Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, 41, were going around together again. From Paris they arrived in Rome together, and a couple of days later breezed back to Paris...