Word: bergamo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Giulio Natta, 76, co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; of complications following surgery for a fractured femur; in Bergamo, Italy. In 1954, Natta revolutionized plastics technology by developing a method of catalyzing propylene gas into highly ordered chains of molecules that proved useful in the manufacture of fabrics, film, auto parts, detergents and countless other products...
...backlog is so huge that cynics have suggested that the mountain of undelivered mail be junked and that the post office start all over again. Someone in the system seems to agree: in June, Italian police discovered that 200 tons of undelivered mail had been sold to a Bergamo processing plant for recycling...
Getty's was the most spectacular kidnaping involving the rich or their offspring in Italy last year-but hardly the only one. In 1973 there were 16 major kidnapings for ransom in Italy. Late last week Student Pier Giorgio Bolis, 17, of Bergamo was abducted; his wealthy industrialist father has duly received a telephone call to negotiate a ransom...