Word: spinelli
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Born Marco Spinelli in Pittsburgh (his father is an Italian count, but Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
...wanted to march on Syria's Damascus. Troops swarmed in the streets of Amman, firing shots in the air, shouting: "Long live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing Syria without proper clearance and had been intercepted by its MIGs...
...Syria-as required by the international aviation regulations. But had anyone also obtained the overflight clearance through diplomatic channels required before the King's plane could cross a foreign border? There was an embarrassing silence in Amman. Someone thought the flight had been cleared through U.N. Representative Pier Spinelli. In a prompt denial, Spinelli snapped: "What do you think we are, a travel bureau?" The chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, Lieut. Colonel Ibrahim Othman, who still suffers occasional blackouts from head injuries suffered when he was caught and badly mauled by the Baghdad mob during the July...
...keep under purview the adherence of all" Arab neighbors to the amity pledge they gave in last summer's U.N. resolution, Hammarskjold set up in Jordan's capital of Amman a new "U.N. organ," in the person of Under Secretary Pier P. Spinelli of Italy. He in turn would have other watchdogs in Beirut and Damascus -but not in Cairo, where President Nasser insists there is no need...
...Town. At that point Angels Camp and the A.M.A. both had had enough. A.M.A. members volunteered to clean out the town. Police Chief Joe Spinelli refused, instead persuaded them to cancel a scheduled parade. Spinelli telephoned the Calaveras County sheriff for reinforcements, moved his seven men to the town's edge to join arriving officers in a show of force. The power play was effective. Hoodlums sprawling along Main Street found themselves suddenly pinned between 30-odd policemen walking quietly into town from the south and 14 carloads of state highway patrolmen rolling in from the north. The cops...