Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still armpit-deep in a sea of matrimonial troubles, paunchy Producer Roberto Rossellini ducked under a wave sloshed from another quarter: bankruptcy proceedings over an allegedly unpaid loan of $34,768. Meanwhile, his radiantly blonde partner on a Stromboli idyl nine seething years ago, twice-married Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 42, confirmed that she would make another try at happiness for two-"as soon as it's legally possible." If an annulment decree from Roberto is granted, she will wed her off-camera companion of more recent days, Swedish Impresario Lars Schmidt. Open-armed for his new daughter was Lars...
...assets: plentiful labor, an open door through U.S. tariff walls for anything the island could grow or make, a ready-to-hand brain trust of half a dozen bright young U.S.-educated economists, professors and businessmen. Among them: Rafael Pico, now president of the government's bank, and Roberto Sánchez Vilella, now Secretary of State (Vice-Governor). Rex Tugwell. named Governor, implanted an efficient civil service and a knack for the kind of economic planning that is flexible enough to improvise when necessary. By long tradition, the Puerto Rican government had-and never lost-a notably...
Romantic Movement. By missing Vice Admiral Ruben Piedrahita, the fifth man in the junta, the rebels made the fatal mistake in their comedy-of-errors revolt. A little after 3 a.m., Piedrahita got a phone call from Public Works Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There's a plot against the government," gasped Salazar. "They've taken the generals and are coming for you. You must be dressed when I come by your house." Piedrahita scrambled into his uniform and climbed down the fire escape of his apartment building as Salazar drove...
...blooded romance and marriage with Roberto Rossellini having fizzled into an annulment suit in an Italian court, Ingrid Bergman, 41, ventured on a northern route, lighted a new romance with rich, arty, Swedish Producer-Publisher Lars Schmidt, 45. Finding the way less volcanic, Ingrid first visited Schmidt's family, then, badly concealed behind dark glasses, high boots and a flat cap, and hugged around her chin by a scarf, she went off for a quiet weekend with Lars in a wooden summer cottage on a Swedish West Coast island. "I love that little island," purred Ingrid, who had once...
...hospital. He was charged with manslaughter. Criminal charges were also filed against the "person or persons unknown" who kidnaped Fangio. No one found it worthwhile to criticize the "person or persons who" permitted the crowd to line the trackside, i.e., the National Sports Commission, headed by Brigadier General Roberto Fernandez Miranda, who is President Batista's brother...