Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Juri and Lisa Matisoo, a young couple from Yorktown Heights, N.Y. (he is an IBM physicist, she an active Junior Leaguer) last month visited London, Rome, Florence and Athens and took a four-day cruise around the Greek islands. They followed Fielding
...Eden in Rome ("Truly paradisal," says Fielding), their room turned out to be tiny and cramped, overlooking a courtyard that was "like an echo chamber"; at the Athens Hilton (Fielding: "Infinitely the best hostelry in Greece"), the Matisoos had to live with a thermostat that was permanently stuck at 80° and a ghostly toilet that flushed all by itself in the middle of the night. Says Juri: "The manager told us that all the toilets in the hotel were flushing, and there just wasn't anything he could do about it." But Harry's Bar in Florence made...
Fielding calls his staff his "family." It consists of Temple, his wife Nancy ("My Nancy"), Joe Raff (ex-managing editor of the Rome Daily American), Raff's wife Judy and Robert Bone, formerly of TIME Inc.'s Book Division. Each Fielding family member has a nickname, which
...currently undergoing rapid change. (A "soft spot" in the 1969 guide: Scotland, which Fielding has not visited since 1966.) Ole Simon, as the only operative with an 00 designation, cuts his own orders, and they are invariably the same: he and Nancy do their spying in London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Copenhagen (a Fielding favorite). The others are assigned to less salubrious spots...
Still, the pay is good, and so are the perks. On the road, Fielding, Raff and Bones travel like triplets. They each carry three dark blue mohair suits, tailored with covered buttons and zippered pockets by Brioni of Rome. Their shirts are all of fine white oxford cloth sewn to Fielding's own design (handmade buttonholes, extra-long French cuffs) by a Majorcan shirtmaker. Their ties are regimental-striped and made in Italy. Their topcoats of blue vicuŅa are cut by English House in Copenhagen. Even their techniques are triplicate...