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...Dino Gentili, 55, is a rich exporter-importer who has one of the most grandiose homes in Milan, a gilded opera box at La Scala, a villa at Portofino, three racy sports cars, and eight companies...
worth $1,600,000. He is also a Red-hot Marxist and a major character in a matter of increasing concern to the U.S.: Western Europe's mounting exchange with Red China. In the four years since Dino Gentili clamped a half nelson on Italy's China trade, he has pushed it from almost zero to $1,000,000-plus a month. Italy has now climbed to third place (behind Britain and West Germany) among Western European nations in trade with the Chinese mainland...
...grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod in the fourth lap, the pack got handlebars tangled, and 25 riders dived into a mass...
...behind the festival is the Metropolitan Opera's young (35) stage director, Dino Yannopoulos. Faced with a bankrupt opera company, an unenthusiastic government and a paltry $50,000 budget, Yannopoulos talked the Met stars into appearing for a fraction of their regular fees. A Greek shipowner undertook to transport the Philharmonic from Naples. Then, with only weeks to go, Yannopoulos settled down to the task of training the 96-voice chorus of Greeks to sing Italian. The results were spectacular, but Yannopoulos was not surprised. "This is the place where the chorus was born," say-he. "It should...
...four-contestant race to film Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Broadway Producer Mike Todd (TIME. Dec. 13) and Italian Producer Dino de Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that...