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...Fooled Everybody (THE NATION)-The incredible story of Anthony ("Tino") De Angelis, the onetime Bronx butcher who oiled the way to bankruptcy for 16 companies in the most prodigious swindle of modern times...
...Austria's intellectual weekly Forum, reports that today the proletariat "is taking on characteristics of the bourgeoisie." It is common to hear such refined expressions as "küss' die Hand," (I kiss your hand), or "hab' die Ehre" (I have the honor) for salutations in butcher shops. The Communist vote has dropped to virtually nothing, while the Socialist Party, which claims 76 seats in the National Assembly, has helped govern the country for 20 years in a remarkably stable coalition with the 81-seat conservative People's Party...
...Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, where they sometimes make up 20% or 30% of the population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd the pavements, while other alleys are lined with Moslem butcher shops, Urdu movie houses, West Indian fish stands and Sikh temples. Behind the seamy house-fronts, brightened, Caribbean-style, with mauve, yellow and blue paint, crowded weekend beer parties set the nights alive with calypso melodies, steel drums, and some nasty fights...
...posthumous career began poorly enough. The corpse of Benito Mussolini hung heels-up alongside that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, like a pig outside a butcher shop. But last week, with the 20th anniversary of his death, the reputation of the Duce was undergoing a remarkable rehabilitation in Italy...
...Rome, Butcher Alberico Amati tried to be more subtle when an undertaker moved in next door, casting a pall over Amati's business. In reply, Amati propped up a pair of buffalo horns and insulting poems in his window; the display drew him an eight-month suspended sentence. His patience gone, Amati then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property...