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Industrial design, in the Italian manner, has long meant sophisticated elegance. Products like Ettore Sottsass Jr.'s Olivetti Valentine typewriter, Marco Zanuso's Aurora fountain pen or Mario Bellini's Chiara lamp are displayed in modern art museums to exemplify beauty...
Poland is another example of the failure of Communism. Bullying, beating and interning people who want to be free are signs of a frightened, cowardly ideology in chaos. Walls, guards and barbed-wire fences should be put up around prisons-not nations. Richard Sypen Aurora, Ohio...
Manotoc seemed an unlikely victim for a kidnaping. He had no real wealth of his own. In 1971, he married Aurora Pijuan, then 21, a sugar planter's daughter who had a year earlier won a beauty contest title: Miss International. The couple had a son and daughter, but had become estranged by the time Manotoc met the President's daughter last February. Imee and Tommy started seeing each other at public events and later sneaking away to a condominium in Makati owned by a relative of Imee. Both families knew what was going on and the presidential...
...midweek Italian police arrested Pasqua Aurora Belli, 34, a former schoolteacher, and Flavio Amico, 26, a printer, as suspects in the Dozier kidnaping, but their exact role in the crime was not clear. Meanwhile, police were kept busy with a number of spurious tips, including a telephone message to the Beirut office of the Italian news agency ANSA. The caller, speaking in Arabic, claimed that Dozier had been executed and that his body could be found in a small but unnamed Italian village. Police found nothing, and the message was considered to be a hoax...
...captured by Callen are famous but hard to find outside of country cottages and inns. And they can be quite elegant. Torta Pasqualina, the Italian Easter pie from Liguria, is made with 33 layers of dough to symbolize Christ's age at his death. And there is Beautiful Aurora's Pillow, a pastry puffed up by the immortal Brillat-Savarin that combines pheasant, veal, pork, foie gras, Cognac and truffles, which might be accompanied by pinaattiohukaiset, a Finnish spinach pancake that is far easier to eat than pronounce...