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...When Aurora comes to Italy from France at war's end, she brings gentle Silvestri to his knees at first meeting. Unfortunately for him, she is completely dominated by an American friend of his who has easily slipped from military government into real estate. Aurora's show-girl history is slightly tawdry, but her stunning figure and simple mind persuade Silvestri that she is his great love. To Aurora, Silvestri is a hapless, tiresome romantic. What she wants is a real man, preferably one with money. As it turns out, she finds both, but not in the same...
...after Silvestri's death by a mutual friend, a middle-aged Italian lawyer who looks on Silvestri as a kind of saint. The heart of the novel lives in the juxtaposed pictures that emerge from the recollections of the devoted friend and the disgusted woman. By the time Aurora is finished with her account, the old friend has been shaken, and by book's end he knows an old truth but one not easily come by: that people know about others only what is comfortable to know. The "real Silvestri'' is another man entirely. This...
...AURORA J. RUFOLO...
Another emphasis this year is on realism, from talking dolls with a vocabulary bigger than some of the little girls who will cradle them to Aurora's 1960-model electric-powered cars. Scaled down to 2 in. in length, the cars can be raced around a miniature track, need a deft touch on the controls to keep them from flipping over. Gilbert makes a bigger, stock-car racing set. Sales of multi-detailed plastic hobby kits are burgeoning, enable boys and girls to produce in miniature everything from auto engines to a transparent Visible Woman, complete with interchangeable parts...
Labor-saving machinery is also playing a big part in holding down costs. Aurora Ill.'s Barber-Greene Co. built a giant $500,000 mobile asphalt plant for Fort Lauderdale's Mobil Asphalt Co., complete with mixing machines, road paver, bunkhouse and machine shop, which rolls under its own power to a job. In a matter of hours it can be set up and with one man operating it, produce 250 tons of asphalt an hour. It will finish in 70 days a 65-mile stretch of highway which was scheduled to take 150 days. Milwaukee...