Word: biella
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Born 51 years ago in a sharecropper's cottage near Biella in the Piedmont, Pella was so bright in school that his parents were relieved of school taxes. Papa and Mamma Pella worked days and nights in a Piedmont spinning mill to send their only child on to the University of Turin (finance and economics) and into the business world. At 30 he commanded big fees as a consultant to the Piedmont textile industry. He went to Rome in 1946 as a parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance...
...escort car, recently borrowed a tiny Fiat for a vacation trip instead of using his gas-greedy Alfa Romeo. With his wife and daughter Wanda, he lives in a simple apartment in Rome's newest apartment-house district, sometimes visits his old (77) mother, who still lives near Biella among the effects of a half-century ago. She consented to have a radio and a telephone in her house only because her visiting son had to know what was going on. ("I am afraid of modern things," she explains...
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