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Even the Catholic Church has become involved in such smaller-scale businesses. The "worker priests" who once brought religion to the factory floor have been superseded by "manager priests," who supervise parish-owned companies founded to provide employment in depressed areas. Father Corrado Catani, for instance, heads a blue-jeans factory that turns out 45,000 pairs of jeans a day, including the bestselling "Jesus Jeans," as one label is called...
...royal families. They controlled a great capital: with 400,000 people, Naples was the largest city in Italy and, after London and Paris, the third largest in Europe. Its need for conspicuous display and luxury kept architects and builders in constant work. A few of them, like the artists Corrado Giaquinto (1703-66) and Francesco Solimena (1657-1747), or the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675-1748), were touched with extraordinary talent. Most of the rest could deploy the kind of rhetorical eloquence and high technical polish that court art demands. Then there was a continuous infusion of foreign artists, German, French...
Rounding out this weekend's traveling squad are veterans Rich Corrado in the 142-lb, class. Alex Montgomery and Mark Cocalis at 150 and 167 lbs, respectively and co-captain Doug Mason. Mason's recovery from last year's long-term virus is a definite plus. Always a bright spot in the program over the past three years, he fills the 158 slot solidly...
What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...
...Corrado match, with the score tied 8-8 at the end of the bout, the referee awarded an extra point to Wildcat Norm Saucey for riding time, which gave New Hampshire the victory...