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...giving impromptu presentations over free cappuccino to bureaucrats, army officers and local journalists. The bid is already in its final stages - Indian air force pilots are testing the planes in the field - so it is unlikely that the PowerPoint slides at Defexpo will sway the decision. Still, says Marco Bonelli, spokesman for the Eurofighter Typhoon, "you have to be here." (See pictures of India a year after the Mumbai attacks...
...product, Oetker has prudently included a handful of leading Italian businessmen in his new venture. Prinzen Bräu's president is Dr. Giovanni Maria Vitelli, head of Turin's influential Chamber of Commerce, and among the members of the company's board is Count Piero Bonelli, a Fiat general director. The brewing will be done by German brewmasters, whose beer is more malty than Italian brews and also contains more alcohol (3.6%, v. 2.5% for most Italian beers...
...charges against Bonelli were nothing new. Almost since the day he entered politics in 1927 as a candidate for the Los Angeles City Council (with the blessing of the Chandlers), Big Bill has been battling accusations of graft. A wealthy man, he has boasted that his $14,000-a-year state salary does not pay his federal income taxes. In 1940 he was tried and acquitted, in a directed verdict, on 23 counts of bribery, bribe solicitation and criminal conspiracy. In 1951 he blustered his way through a stormy session with the Senate's Kefauver crime investigating committee, forced...
Kick the Cow. To the Democrats, Bonelli brings a package of mixed blessings. He has a considerable political following (it has been estimated that he can deliver 50,000 votes), but the Chandler charges may cling to his coattails. In view of Bonelli's record and the Chandlers' power, most California politicians, of whatever affiliation, were understandably mum last week. Big Bill Bonelli was not. "Well, what the hell," he shrugged, "somebody has to have enough guts to kick a few sacred cows around here, or a man won't be able to brush his own teeth...
Urbane Norman Chandler shrugged back: "Mr. Bonelli's sudden about-face reminds me of a quip credited to Voltaire. When informed [that] a man of whom he had spoken highly had referred in slighting terms to him, Voltaire said: 'After all, we could both be wrong.' " In California last week, many voters were wondering whether Chandler and Bonelli could both be right...