Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haughtily when the visiting Prince Albert of Liege, younger (25) brother of Belgium's King Baudouin, made his first discreet inquiry last November. "She is nice, but so shy that you hardly know whether she's around or not." By the time Prince Albert got back from Rome after attending the coronation of Pope John XXIII, all the world knew that Paola was around. The gossipists reported that Albert had fallen in love with her at first sight, proposed to her at second. Last week the people of Brussels chanted her name, and the bells of the churches...
Grand Illusion. But De Gaulle apparently had more in mind than protocol splendor and ancient memories. On the seven-hour train trip from Milan to Rome, he took up with an unenthusiastic Gronchi his notions of "Latin brotherhood." He hinted grandly of the benefits of a Mediterranean pact with Italy, and possibly Spain, Tunisia and Morocco. He dangled before his host's eyes France's own imminent entry into the "nuclear club," and seemed to share Le Monde's strange illusion that "Italian leaders desire France to be the natural spokesman for Italy...
...speech timed to coincide with De Gaulle's arrival in Rome, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella declared with as much bluntness as he dared: "We shall continue to contribute to the North Atlantic alliance, the most effective instrument to discourage aggressors . . . We are happy to see continued good progress in our relations with the countries of the Middle East and North Africa...
Drafted into a road race for glamorous types who sped for publicity from Rome to Sicily, bosomy Cinemactress Anita Ekberg teamed up with willing Italian Cinemactor Antonio Gerini, set forth in her blue Lancia Flaminia roadster. In the southern town of Castrovillari, the couple tooled abreast of a human roadblock-a group of Anita's male partisans, who screamed, pounded on the car and tried to touch her in order to make sure that she was real. Rattled Driver Gerini tried to bulldoze his way through the idolaters, succeeded in setting off a stampede, gently bowling over a half...
...expatriate American hero-heel, who tells this story in first-person flashback, has a code of sorts. He believes that arty ends justify ratty means. Setting up his easel on Rome's Spanish Steps, he sketches the pigeons until the inevitable tourist sucker expresses interest. Eventually, the painter cadges a meal at the Caffe Greco, or his rent money, or a small "loan" to tide him over till the next patron of the arts appears...