Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In late February, the man who is President of Italy until 1962 will call on President Eisenhower. What will he say? Last week, Giovanni Gronchi answered that question in a surprisingly outspoken interview with U.S. Correspondent Edmund Stevens. If State Department officials expect that the invitation to the U.S. will...
"PROGRESSIVIST GOVERNMENT." Correspondent Stevens cut in: "What about evolution in Italy since you had your republican revolution?" At this point, wrote Stevens, "the President pensively removed the heavy tortoise-shell glasses that usually hide his expression, and smiled a sly Tuscan smile (every Tuscan has some Machiavelli in him and...
Gronchi, a handsome, greying man of 68 who was chosen President last spring, pleasantly explained to Stevens how he would go about arranging the "opening to the left." First he would ditch the Christian Democrats' small but stout allies, the Liberals (the nearest Italian equivalent to a free-enterprise...
"I remarked," said Stevens, "that in that case it was rather strange neither Signor Nenni nor any other spokesman for the Italian Socialist Party had ever spoken in disagreement with their Communist allies on such crucial questions. Signor Gronchi said that Signor Nenni was afraid to express his feelings openly...
Helmore's realization at the end of the play that there are worse things in life than an untouched debutante seems quite convincing. His problem with accent is alarming; allegedly proper Bostonian and Harvardian, his dialect would place him somewhere between Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. But he is agreeably suave...