Word: autostradas
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...battle for control of British Aluminium, Warburg fought most of the British banking Establishment-and won. His S. G. Warburg & Co. also plotted most of the press takeovers by both Lord Thomson and Cecil King, helped Chrysler buy into Rootes Motors, arranged financing for Italy's autostrada, managed the first U.S. corporate bond issue in Europe, for Socony Mobil last year...
...developed nation, the south stood in harsh contrast to Italy's industrialized north. Now all the old ideas about the south may have to be revised. Last week, with flying banners and ecclesiastical pomp, the Italians opened the last stretch of the 468-mile Milan-to-Salerno Autostrada del Sole, the first modern highway link between north and south...
...most open-minded of clients. Yet they do not often concede the degree of freedom given to Italian Architect Giovanni Michelucci, 73, in his new Church of St. John the Baptist. His client was the governmental superhighway authority (modeled on the New York Port Authority) that built the Autostrada del Sole from Milan to Naples. It wanted a memorial to dead highway-builders, and put no limitations of time, size, form or budget on Architect Michelucci...
...beer that may some day make Milan famous is quite unlike the usual watery Italian brew. On the autostrada running west out of Milan, the first German brewery to be built in Italy is now under construction. When it goes into production next spring, the Prinzen Brau brewery will produce 1,350,000 gallons of heady, German-style beer a year. The man behind Prinzen Bräu: West Germany's Rudolph-August Oetker, 46, a publicity-shunning tycoon who has built an inherited baking powder business into a 100-company complex with interests ranging from shipping to insurance...
...cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat's Cinzano vermouth, shops at a Fiat drugstore, leaves for Milan over the Fiat-controlled autostrada (toll road...