Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were times when people wondered if he was real. Crowds stopped to gawk at the tall, brown gladiator as he ambled along the Via Veneto, grinning, waving, talking to everybody whether they understood him or not. He captured Bing Crosby and went everywhere with him arm in arm. He posed with Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, shook hands solemnly, and crowed: "So long, Floyd, be seein' you-in about two more years." He brushed off a Russian reporter who prodded him about the plight of U.S. Negroes: "Man, the U.S.A. is the best country in the world, counting yours...
...story begins, Clem emerges from his cocoon of dirty laundry onto the Via Veneto for a day or so of wife-sitting with Hilda, pregnant bride of his old school and college pal Mark Stone (né Stein). Stone is now a widely liberal rabbi, and busy with last-minute preparations for his International Conference on Love to be held at the offices of the U.S. Information Service. Hilda and her attendant Clem attend the conference, go to bed, get mixed up in a May Day demonstration in the Piazza del Popolo. Clem knocks Mark cold (with a stone, naturally...
Mona was wending her enigmatic way from Washington, via air-conditioned van, to Manhattan, where she went on view for 3½ weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite rain, slush and bone-cracking cold, a crowd of 23,872 queued up in three-block-long lines on the first day to make frostbitten obeisance before the lady with the greenish face in her bulletproof, heat-and-humidity-controlled shrine...
Educator John Vaizey, 33, spent nearly a dozen years in hospitals with osteomyelitis, but managed to reach Cambridge via a scholarship. Currently an economics don at Oxford, he has written five trail-blazing books on education. Vaizey eloquently advocates reform of an educational system that he says "is a reflection of the substantial inequalities of the English class system...
...guys ever praise anybody or anything without running down somebody else? This time, via the Lombardi story, you overinflate football by the glib expedient of deflating basketball, tennis, hockey, boxing and baseball. Talk about a slow-motion bore: huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, time out, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, pass, fumble, gun, final score: 0-0-and the fans could be all the way to Chicago by jet, and return...