Word: villa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onassis, Tina's legal blockbuster came as a "surprise." For Soprano Maria Callas, 36,, for weeks in print as a friend of Onassis, and separated from Italian Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend on a semi-global scale over a seven-year period? To some newsmen, it was all Greek, but others soon zeroed...
Died. Heitor Villa-Lobos, 72, self-taught, prolific Brazilian composer who combined the counterpoint of Bach with the vigorous rhythms of native Brazilian music in more than 2,000 works (Bachianas Brasileiras, Seréstas), gloried in the fact that he constantly shifted his style, followed no one line of development or school, founded the Brazilian National Academy of Music, directed massive choruses drawn from all levels of the population; in Rio de Janeiro. In a life of strenuous activity, Villa-Lobos lived up to his own code: "Life is a gamble, and I'm for gambling." He voyaged...
...EVENING CONCERT. Bach, French suite no. 2; Elgar, Enigma variations; Schumann, Kinderscenen; Viotti, Violin concerto no. 22; Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasilieras...
...another villa, a few hundred yards away, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, the rebels' host and longtime ally, declared: "One must have faith. I believe De Gaulle has gone as far as he can go ... The F.L.N. would be displaying courage if it accepted his offer...
...currency, Author Caldwell set out valiantly to spend his capitalist-size bankroll there. But he could find almost nothing exportable to buy. In the end, Caldwell returned some 19,500 rubles to the publisher for safekeeping, ignored blandishments to hang around and live like a millionaire (a Black Sea villa, etc.) until his royalties...