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...Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students...
...brief further charged that Gulf gave Portugal access to oil-a vita strategic commodity in the government's war against Angolan liberation forces...
COVERING the New Hampshire primary was like watching a scene from Fellini's La Dolce Vita, where the main character was enveloped wherever he went by a swarm of reporters and photographers. This is not to compare an Ed Muskie or a George McGovern to a Marcello Mastroianni but simply to illustrate the overwhelming role the press played in the New Hampshire primary...
81/2, Fellini's dolce vita goes sour, Dunster Dining Hall...
...young as well. "It's a much better way to observe a girl's physical qualities than in a smoky, dimly lit cafe," said a student at Zurich's Federal Technical University last week, as he gazed fondly at his companion. "I met Susy at a Vita Parcours three months ago, and now we keep fit together...