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...forthcoming Justice Department report is expected to conclude that the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies to illegally obtain more than 2,000 U.S. telephone records, according to the Washington Post. FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni called the bureau's methods, which included issuing approvals after the fact and persuading phone companies to release records, "good-hearted but not well thought...
Died. Gianni Caproni, Count of Taliedo, 71, Italian aviation pioneer, whose first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids...
Primary Turin targets were the Royal Arsenal, the Fiat truck and plane plants, the Caproni bomber factory, the Montecatini chemical works. Observers reported that a great pall of smoke lay over the city. At one point flames from a factory shot up 8,000 feet in the air like the plume of a live volcano...
...mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship four Caproni fighting planes worth $160,000 and $40,000 worth of parts. The deal was not motivated by the recent fiasco flight of Italian seaplanes to South America...
Last week another pilot in a bulky, air-tight suit climbed almost ten miles up into the stratosphere. He was Colonel Mario Pezzi, commander of the military altitude school at Montecarlo, Italy. In his Caproni biplane with its 14-cylinder, 700-h.p. Piaggio engine, he encountered temperature as low as 65.2° below zero Fahrenheit, but got back to earth without trouble and with a new world record...