Word: excelsior
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...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
...money has not bought Vesco universal popularity. Last December he served as honorary president of a fiesta in Heredia, a provincial capital. But after the newspaper Excelsior (which Vesco is rumored to own) ran pictures of the financier crowning the winner of a beauty contest, the town fathers rebuked the fiesta commission for honoring the infamous exile, and two other dailies published expressions of moralistic indignation from educators and public officials. Vesco's presence is frequently denounced by politicians in opposition to the government of Figueres' successor, Daniel Oduber. Mario Echandi, who served as President from...
Last year's bestselling Burr is an excel lent example of the author's skill at packaging a bit of class in a good deal of excelsior. For Myron, he tricks out his peeves and hostilities with the malicious energy that has made him the best-if not the most original-of our hard-core satirists. Myra/Myron is the perfect mate for Vidal's cold-blooded gifts. If the caricatures, derision and raillery sometimes outpace the action-or the point -it is because even Vidal is not immune to the satirist's most common affliction...
Playwright Thornton Wilder is the good old white magician who once had us all handing chairs down theater aisles to feed a stage fire and save the suburb of Excelsior, N.J., from the ice age. He successfully launched Noah's ark from the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City-despite the fact that Mrs. Noah wouldn't let it shove off without Cain as well as Abel. Novelist Thornton Wilder has re-created 18th century Peru (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and ancient Rome (The Cabala). In Our Town, he made Grover's Corners, N.H., into...
...their luxurious adjoining suites at the Excelsior hotel the two men got down to details. Cámpora was told who his new Cabinet members would be and how best to reconcile what he called "deep and painful" differences within Perón's Justicialist political movement, which contains elements from both the far right and the radical left. Neither man would disclose what political decisions had been made, but their aides did provide some glimpses of Perón's ambitions for the "new Argentina...