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...grand old man of the Games will be Australian Bill Roycroft, 61, an equestrian appearing in his fifth Olympics. A wiry, gray-haired farmer from the sheep country of southern Australia, Roycroft is best remembered for his performance at the 1960 Rome Olympics. After having to be hoisted onto his horse by teammates because he had broken or dislocated his arm, shoulder and collarbone in a fall during an earlier, cross-country event, Roycroft clinched the gold medal for his team with a faultless show of jumping...
Open City. The story behind this movie is as remarkable as the film itself--Roberto Rossellini made it while the Germans still occupied Rome in 1945. The plot anticipates the Historic Compromise; a priest and a Communist partisan cooperate to combat fascism...
...more remarkable aspects of downtown renewal today is not really construction at all. Instead of tearing down sturdy old structures (what would Rome be if that had been the Italian approach?), builders are renovating them and turning them to new uses. The process-alas, called "recycling" in current jargon-has caught on across the U.S. In Salt Lake City trolley-car barns now house an entertainment center; a Cleveland power plant has become a theater; what was once a torpedo factory in Alexandria, Va., is an arts center...
...square feet of floor space, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is the largest church in the world. Next come the Seville Cathedral, St. John's, and the cathedrals in Liverpool, Milan and Washington...
...despair, a father figure who adored children but never had any of his own. He possessed extraordinary skill at getting what he wanted by wanting only what seemed good for the country. Like nearly every Washington biographer, Cunliffe compares the man's virtues to those of ancient Rome: "As for ambition-gloria -it is conceived as a civic impulse, not a private torment ... Washington's desire to be well thought of is a classical desire not in the least akin to the populist, other-directed anxiousness that renders prominent men of the present day so susceptible...