Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What banner of rationality and what pretense of right justifies and permits such aimless waste? We must demand distinction between freedoms and their abuse. Clamorous dissenters, along with the silent majority of us, would do well to meditate upon the ominous words of the historian of Rome (Livy): "Then let him observe how when discipline wavered, morality first tottered and then began the headlong plunge, until it has reached the present stale of affairs when we can tolerate neither our vices nor their remedies." CARLOS M. BARANANO Detroit
...entire journey, in fact, had the trappings of a presidential-or royal-cavalcade. To make sure that her twelve-hour flight from Rome, where she stopped en route, to Bangkok would be both safe and comfortable, Alitalia stripped, searched and then replaced her plane's inside furnishings, made up a special 3-ft. by 6-ft. bed for her in what is usually the first-class lounge. The Pope, Women's Wear Daily noted in its distinctively catty way, is given no better treatment. In Bangkok, she was met by Thai officials, slept at the Thai government...
Nothing Exaggerated. De La Renta is strictly a wholesale designer (exceptions: his wedding dresses for Anne Ford Uzielli and Minnie Gushing Beard). Among his customers are Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and all the Kennedys except Jackie, whose loyalty is still to Rome's Valentino. Says De La Renta of his dress of the year: "It's very feminine. There is nothing exaggerated about it, and many different types of women can wear...
...first time in Christian history, the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople last week set foot in Rome. Accompanied by four of his Metropolitans, Athenagoras I, the spiritual primate of Orthodoxy, arrived by jet for the third of his historic, symbolic encounters with Pope Paul VI. The three-day visit was, in a sense, a return engagement, inspired by the Pope's trip to Istanbul last July...
...four Popes, Dalla Torre austerely spelled out the church's stand on the issues of the day, only rarely, but then effectively, airing his own views in the paper's columns. His scathing editorials denouncing Fascism so enraged Mussolini that he ordered the paper banned from Rome, but Dalla Torre continued to smuggle out copies from his Vatican sanctuary, remaining one of the few Italian voices resisting the Axis...