Word: sardinia
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...side, overlooking the old city. The Egyptian government last year launched a five-year plan to build 40 hotels. Sprinting toward the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo builders have 14 new hotels in the works. New hotels are under way or planned in such once remote spots as Kuala Lumpur, Karachi, Sardinia, Bangkok, Manila, Alexandria and Aswan...
...very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many...
Spain's Costa Brava, In five years ago, is Out now, though the Costa del Sol is still O.K. Out are St.-Tropez and Jamaica. In are Barbados, the Greek islands, and Sardinia, where the Aga Khan (very In) is building a resort. Southampton is In; Newport is coming back In fast, partly because of the Kennedys, who were married there at Jackie's mother's shorefront house...
...Tolstoyan. The Italian constitution regards the President as the living symbol of the nation, and for Italy's paradoxical mood of economic prosperity and intellectual concern, the election of Segni was remarkably appropriate. A wealthy gentleman farmer from Sardinia,* Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...
...Italy's long history, Sardinia has produced hardly any notable figures. Until Segni reached a political eminence, the island's most famed citizen was Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1926 for a novel, Flight into Egypt. Before she died in 1936 she had written 28 novels about life on the "forgotten island...