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...While Rome of the last three victories can be called convincing, Yale is in position to move into a tie for second place in the Ivits...
...developing inside its Communist ally, announced that it was sending 400 to 500 trucks, 16 planes and 24 helicopters to distribute foodstuffs. The European Community granted nearly $42 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, Mauritania, Niger, Mali and Chad for this year. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome approved $415.8 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Lesotho. And Australia added $3.5 million in extra food aid to the $9 million already pledged to African countries. Said UNICEF's representative in Addis Ababa: "We have been asking for help since early 1983. It seems...
...cause of Ethiopia's agony has been a series of disastrous harvests caused by the prolonged drought. The harvest of teff, the grain crop that provides the main source of food for Ethiopians, was very poor last winter, according to a U.N. senior official in Rome, and the secondary crop that came in last spring was "a virtual failure." Said the official: "The tragedy in Ethiopia demands not only an immediate response but a sustained response...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage-Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s...
...Corbusier. "I am often labeled a disciple of Le Corbusier," Meier says. "Sure, I think he was the greatest architect of the century. But then I am also a disciple of Borromini, and I'm affected no less by Bramante and Bernini, whose work I studied in Rome." Indeed, both lines of influence are visible in Meier's work. His buildings reflect Le Corbusier's interplay of geometric forms, and they are as flooded with natural light as the churches of the 17th century Italian baroque masters...