Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Widespread unemployment once made Italian workers terrified of their bosses, but terror has turned to testiness. With jobs aplenty in present-day Italy, strikes are as common as wolf calls on the Via Veneto. Last week 800,000 textile and chemical workers struck to back demands that would push labor costs up 70%. Radio and TV employees entered the second month of a bitter dispute with management over higher pay and job reclassifications...
Last week President Johnson named U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Fulton Freeman as the new Ambassador to Mexico; issued an executive order banning employment discrimination be cause of age in businesses with federal contracts; wished a busy Lady Bird Happy Valentine's Day via the mobile telephone in her White House limousine, and did a lot of dancing...
...daily with fabrics, fertilizers, medicines and home appliances; commissaries are being set up to sell these goods at bargain prices. On return trips, the planes bring out fish, hides, rubber and dairy products. Farmers in the Caqueta region last year shipped 1,000,000 sacks of rice to market via Satena; at the village of El Refugio, fishermen who used to have no way to market their catch now fly out four tons weekly. This month Satena will put a converted PBY seaplane into service as an "air hospital" for river communities...
...that Bomb," Peter had invited her in "for a friendly drinkie." After that it was 16 days of soft-Sellers-"Restaurants and little corners, I'm good at those"-before she flew off to Manhattan. And three days later he popped the question during a $168 phone call "via Telstar." Smiled the smitten bridegroom-to-be: "I've only known her for a few weeks, but I don't think that matters. She is un spoilt and also very dishy...
...with cologne-scented water from the Jordan-but the tough legionnaires treated it like an Israeli attack force. Swinging rifle butts and even olive branches snatched from waiting children, the soldiers tried to clear a path so the Pope could walk in prayer along the shabby, bazaar-littered Via Dolorosa, venerated as the street along which Jesus carried his cross to Calvary. The Pope twice stopped to meditate briefly at a station of the Cross and once slipped inside a convent for 25 minutes of rest and prayer, while outside, his security guards attempted to control the screaming, pushing...