Word: hernando
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...drive Gulf Italia from Sicily. The Italian left, attacking foreign investors in general, jabbed especially at Gulf Italia's vice president and operating head, Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes, scion of a noble family that claims Pope Innocent XII and Mexico's Conqueror Hernando Cortes in its lineage. Pignatelli seemed an easy target: he graces Roman society's lavish dinner tables, is a jet-set sportsman, and can be tough in business: when his Ragusa field was mechanized, he fired 700 of his 850 Sicilian workers...
...modern Russia. Every two weeks, the kids hand in independent research reports. One work sheet asked seventh-graders to analyze the significance of Adam Smith. Robert Walpole, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, the Bill of Rights, the British Cabinet system, and the Commonwealth of Nations. Sixth-graders had to discuss Hernando Cortes, Pancho Villa...
...button marked "Press" from a men's room urinal, affixed it to his lapel and crashed a swank party as a newspaperman. But of more lasting interest was the hotel's impeccable service, a concept originally executed by, and credited to. the Beverly Hills's Hernando Courtright, who bought the hotel in 1943. Current owner Ben Silberstein, who took over ten years later, has sedulously maintained the tradition. The Beverly Hills has 1½ employees for every guest, the highest ratio of any hotel in the country...
...course, she's jes' fine in the rest of those numbers too. At Hernando's Hideaway, she gets deliciously and most raucously drunk; before that, with bowler, smock and tights, she's given us "Steam Heat" (Janet Mendelsohn and Charon Lee Cohen, the show's choreographer, assist her in that). Accoutered as she is she'd heat up any union...
After the intermission, the orchestra played the finale from Symphony No. 4, by Tschaikovsky; "Hernando's Hide-away" from The Pajama Game; selections from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein '39; and "Harvard Fantasy," by Leroy Anderson '29. The intermediates left early to the strains of "Never on Sunday...