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...down further-than last year. They are offering double rooms for $21 to $26 a day, about $20 less than the usual high-season rate. Their decision to give the tourists some bargains comes none too soon. "Right now the lobbies look like undertakers' parlors between funerals," says Roberto Bouret, director of the hotel association...
...ROBERTO Di SCIPIO El Paso
...chemicals, including materials for aspirin and rubber. The subsidiaries are forbidden by the U.S. Government to sell any of 600 "strategic items," but the embargo list leaves plenty of room for trade. General Motors, for example, sold $682,000 worth of diesel engines and spare parts in 1970 to Roberto Perlini Co., an Italian truck manufacturer, who sent them to China along with 80 Perlini trucks...
...powerful influence on its presidential occupants, elected or not. Juan Carlos Ongania, installed after the last civilian government was overthrown in 1966, was ejected last June by his former military comrades for planning a corporate-style state with himself as its permanent head. Ongania's humorless, moody successor, Roberto M. Levingston, succumbed to the same dreams of grandeur; some of his aides even took to calling him "the Emperor." He overestimated his own power and underestimated that of the army chief who had given him the presidency in the first place, Lieut. General Alejandro A. Lanusse. Thus Levingston last...
...16th and 17th century missionary campaigns in Asia, several of the early Jesuit efforts were impressively productive. In China, Father Matteo Ricci put on the dress of a Confucian scholar and won widespread respect both for his scientific expertise and for the wisdom of Catholic teaching. In India, Father Roberto de Nobili assumed the saffron robes and vegetarian diet of a Hindu sannyasi, or holy man. He used the Hindu vedas to teach about Christ and won converts among the Brahmans themselves...