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...summer. Spokane's Gonzaga University (enrollment: 2,440) has its own six-story building in Florence, and California's University of Redlands (enrollment: 1,500) leases a building in Salzburg. Temple University announced last week that it will open an art branch in a villa on the Tiber River in Rome. At least 10 U.S. universities operate 15 independent branches in Europe...
Upon a Tractor, a TV special promoting the U.N., she jumps on the Bond-wagon with a chase across several mythical countries, disguising herself as a soldier with brown wig and handlebar mustache, leaping off a pier into the Tiber River-all to elude villains long enough to plead a cause before the U.N. The real James Bond would have had no use for any one of them. He liked his girls dependent. As he observed in Goldfinger, women of the Jane Bond type are simply "unhappy sexual misfits-barren and full of frustrations, girls whose hormones have got mixed...
...smaller arks has been moored just below a tributary of the Tiber; soon the gates will be open and the deluge will result. Sodom has been built out of charred plastic and spreads over 25 acres of Mount Etna. Katherine Dunham and her dancers were called in to provide the sin. Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics. "There's no obscenity," says Huston, "but you will know unspeakable things are going...
Only six ballots had been needed; all Rome knew then that the election could only have gone to one man. Within an hour, the crowd in the square had swollen to more than 100,000, and every Roman street west of the Tiber was hopelessly snarled with traffic. When Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of the Holy Office and senior Cardinal-Deacon of the Sacred College, at last appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with a retinue of clerics, a vast roar came up from the crowd. "I announce to you tidings of great joy," he intoned...
...Vatican." He died, embittered by his political failures, in 1878. When his coffin was carried to a final resting place at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura three years later, anticlerical Romans tossed mud at the mourners, unsuccessfully tried to seize the remains and dump them in the Tiber...