Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶ Giuseppe Pero, 66, was elected president and chief executive of Italy's Olivetti company, succeeding Adriano Olivetti, who, before his death fortnight ago, transformed his father's small typewriter business into a worldwide manufacturer of office machines and machine tools. Directors passed over Olivetti's son...
Ordinary Italians, painfully aware that their politicians are too absorbed in influence peddling and office seeking to devote much attention to the nation's grave social and economic problems, mostly applauded Merzagora. But Italy's political bosses, leftists and rightists alike, chorused righteously that Merzagora was "discrediting democratic...
Michael Blundell, 53, bluff, Yorkshire-born farmer, is the closest thing to a liberal leader in Kenya today. Thirty-five years ago, he turned down the chance of a legal career in England after school (Wellington), and with ?100 and a shotgun made his way to Kenya to work as...
"We're still moving too slowly and doing too inadequate a job," said Paul Swens-son, managing editor of the Minneapolis Star, last week. "We have shown a willingness to expand manpower, devote more space and tackle the complex side-the philosophy rather than just the business -of education...
With this final honor, Gossie retired from the show ring, was carried off to the Venables' home in Atlanta. There he will lead a life of casual ease, and devote himself to the task of improving his breed (stud fee $150). Business should be brisk, for Pekingese fanciers are...