Word: italians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touring by open car, was a brash and bustling boom town (pop. 23,000) where the sprawling trailer camps are guyed by wire against the 75m.p.h. gales, where tricky tides buffet the three to four ships putting in daily at the busy port, where U.S., British, Dutch and Italian oilmen elbow up in nightclubs to watch chorus lines as sprightly as the best in Buenos Aires...
...engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget, YPF will drill 4,100 wells on its own by 1965, has let contracts to Kerr-McGee, Southeastern Drilling and the Italian ENI for another...
Showing up in Stockholm to get his Nobel Prize for literature (value: $42,601.96), left-leaning Italian Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, sounded more as if he came to be tried rather than honored. He praised the Swedish Academy for its "nonconformist" decision to give him the prize, snarled at those in the West who had said that he did not deserve it. Quasimodo pooh-poohed the Soviet oppression of Hungary, lashed out at Western publications that had hinted that he was a Red. Said the new Nobelman: "It is said that I am proud, conceited, and difficult to understand...
...years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When he dug into the sandy floor, he found a peculiar bundle: a goatskin wrapped around the desiccated body of a child. The entrails had been removed and replaced by a bundle of herbs...
ABRAMS, which began with three art books in 1950, published 20 this fall (including the magnificent Italian Villas and Palaces at $17.50) and will offer a spring list of 14 more, headed by a $100 volume on the Vatican collection...