Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gingerbread cookies, and toys mostly made by the blind and selected by Jacqueline Kennedy; it stands 16 ft. high in the main lobby near the Blue Room, which was itself closed because it is being redone partially in white. There is a crèche with exquisite. 18th century Neapolitan figures in the East Room. Some 1,200 members of the White House staff who last week attended the annual staff Christmas party received prints of a watercolor by Pennsylvania Artist Edward Lehman showing the Red Room as it has recently been redecorated in cerise...
Died. Giovanni Porzio, 88, longtime Italian senator and Vice Premier (1948-50), an operatic Neapolitan trial lawyer whose curiosity for peccadilloes and "crimes of honor" led him to defend bored playboys and cuckolded peasants, successfully arguing his last case at the age of 85; in Naples, Italy...
...rough-and-tumble reconstruction made way for new men and new ideas. Wily Dino de Laurentiis, who has revitalized Italy's film industry by making movies (War and Peace, Attila) with international casts and the specific purpose of tapping international markets, is the son of a small Neapolitan pasta manufacturer. In Britain, neither George Harriman, who as head of British Motor Corp. is the United Kingdom's biggest automaker, nor Financier Charles Clore, who has won fame as London's "Takeover King," can boast the once-traditional public school and university background...
...earthquake that hit Naples, 20 miles away, caused a slight tremor at Ravello, and Jackie quickly sent a message of sympathy to the Neapolitan victims. "I am deeply distressed by the destruction caused by the earthquake in Southern Italy," she wrote. "The past two weeks have reaffirmed my admiration and affection for the people of this part of the world and filled me with gratitude for all their kindness and courtesy. That they, who give so much in heart and spirit, should suffer loss of life and home is truly a calamity. I pray that all who have suffered...
...rumpled. Both were tired from filming Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona in the town of Tirrenia. In one of those private moments that public figures rarely show the world, Sophia Loren wrapped her brawny arms around Carlo Ponti, her short, balding spouse, in a tender Neapolitan embrace. The photographers were not far away...