Word: savoia
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...once said that people should embrace their heritage. What advice would you give to someone born during Nazi-era Germany? Ruth Savoia, LADY LAKE...
...well-heeled travelers, a trip to Italy more often than not includes a stay at one of the 16 world-famous CIGA hotels. The rich list includes the Grand and Excelsior in Rome, the Gritti Palace in Venice and Milan's Principe e Savoia. At prices up to $100 a day, the CIGA chain has developed a loyal and profitable following by living up to its motto: "The client is a name, not a room number...
...name is Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Margherita Ludovica Felicita Gennara di Savoia. The founder of her house was Humbert the White-handed, who ruled Savoy in the 11th century. Among her ancestors are saints, Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors, antipopes, French and Belgian princesses, Italian and Balkan nobility and kings of lands as widely separated as Spain and Cyprus and England. Italy, last week, was in a ferment over Princess Maria Gabriella. The report was that she might marry a king twice her age whose father had been an army private...
Taste & Talent. A tour of duty tinkering with the great, slow-churning marine turbines of such ships as the Rex and the Conte di Savoia gave Alfieri a taste for hefty engines. At Maserati he is forever trying to balance his desire for a lot of cylinders with the racer's need for resistance to wear and tear. It took Giulio more than two years of arguing, pleading, cajoling, storming to convince Maserati's high brass that a twelve-cylinder engine was the logical evolution from their successful six-cylinder, 2.5-liter racer...
...almost no electricity. On chilly winter evenings peasant women lit bundles of twigs on their mud floors to warm their chimneyless, smoke-blackened houses. When party organizers moved in after the war, Communism took Castelpoto with a rush-even to the local branch of Catholic Action, whose leader, Costanzo Savoia, became mayor on the Communist ticket. This situation, church authorities decided, called for Don Domenico's soft eyes and strong jaw. For Don Domenico, 46, had acquired fame of a sort by having won his most recent parish-a village not unlike Castelpoto-away from Communism with a well...