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Next door, 14-year-old Jaime Adriano is waiting, too. He was only two months old when his mother abandoned him, overwhelmed by the prospect of raising an Amerasian child on her own. Jaime lives with a foster family, sleeping in a coffin-sized bedroom where he keeps his hip-hop clothes and prized hair gel. Neighbors whisper that his foster father beats him, but there is nowhere for the 14-year-old boy to go. School is out for the former honor-roll student: his foster father recently lost his job and Jaime's $10 tuition was the first...
...mind. "I think I can do lots of things and do them well," she says. "But what's important to me is having financial independence from my parents and a good lifestyle - which simply means being able to go out and enjoy myself and be with my friends." Adriano Rossi, an Italian who works as a banker in London, says that many friends who left Italy to pursue international careers eventually want to move back "because of quality of life, family and a generally more comfortable lifestyle." He's among them. "What is an evening in Trastevere worth?" he asks...
...standard of excellence in corporate appearance was set by Camillo Olivetti and his son Adriano. The Olivettis started manufacturing typewriters and other office machines in 1908 at Ivrea, Italy. From the outset, their company was dedicated to outstanding design. Olivetti also excelled in providing such employee services as nurseries, day camps and housing assistance. Said Riccardo Musatti, Olivetti's director of advertising until his death in 1965: "The corporate image ... should not be a distorting mirror or a come-on symbol, but the total expression of a complex reality...
...DuPre tiptoed into the first round and ambushed fourth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis, 24. "I consider myself basically a pretty horrendous grass player," DuPre said afterward. Four matches later, in one of the most uproarious quarter finals ever staged on hallowed Center Court, DuPre outgunned the handsome, acrobatic Italian, Adriano Panatta, 29, thereby silencing thousands of his screaming, chanting countrymen, who were unkindly dubbed the "Spaghetti Brigade" by the British press. The score was 3-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3, and DuPre had to admit: "I seem to be picking up the game a little better...
What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...