Word: repubblica
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...father, God bless him, would have burst his buttons. My blessed mother would have been running from door to door to tell the neighbors the good news." Neither, alas, was alive to see their distinguished son Frank Sinatra invested as a grande ufficiale al merito della repubblica italiana. The citation read by Amedeo Cerchione, Italian consul general in Los Angeles, ranked Sinatra a "great and meritorious official of the Italian republic" for his philanthropic work, the prestige he has brought Italy as an Italian American and, of course, because he has "proved himself a brilliant actor, a most capable interpreter...
Although regional elections are not comparable to national ones and the Christian Democrats usually do better in national votes, the Communists hope to improve on the 33% they won last year. This is far from certain. The latest poll published by Rome's pro-Socialist daily La Repubblica showed Christian Democrats gaining by a percentage point, to put them three points beyond the Communists. Berlinguer, in a perhaps deliberately gloomy assessment last week, agreed with the trend...
...revised material appear in each edition of our Travel Guide, embracing every single land between its covers; 2) our very recent survey disclosed that a whopping 83% of its users are repeat readers; 3) when the President of Italy so generously bestowed upon me the Ordina al Merita della Repubblica, it wasn't the Grand Cross, which normally is reserved for chiefs of state and ambassadorial-level diplomats. Since we are naught but toilers in the travel-writing vineyards, the grade is Cross of Commander (Comendador)-which the British and various other governments classify as "Knight Commander...
...cartoon image of the American supertourist?relentlessly energetic about travel but worried about getting gypped, wary of being misdirected or slighted, and rather homesick for America. So last week, when the Italian government notified Fielding that it had awarded him the Grand Cross of the Ordina al Merito della Repubblica, and wanted to decorate him on June 11 in Barcelona, it was in character for Temple Fielding to send regrets. He will be too busy on June 11?getting together with the givers of his college days at his 30th Princeton reunion...