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Szilard, who, with Enrico Fermi, the first sustained nuclear reaction led directly to the development of bomb, now devotes full time...
...provincial city of Parma (pop. 89,300) harbors the toughest opera audience in Italy. Local legend has it that the great Enrico Caruso, singing L'Elisir d'Amore, was once all but booed from the stage in a performance that did not please Parma's exacting gallery. Next day a cabbie refused to take him to the station. The hack driver's reason: he did not want to dirty his carriage with such a bad singer...
Then the S.A.O. turned to Italy. Last summer they had sent a death warning to Italy's top industrialist, Enrico Mattei, because they suspected that he had made a deal with the rebel Moslem F.L.N. to exploit Saharan oil once France pulls out of Algeria. Last week, at Rome's Urbe airport, mechanics warmed up Mattei's sleek, twin-jet executive plane to carry him on a flight to Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built...
...thirteen years since the plastic LP era began, no classical record has exhibited the sales allure of such old champions as Enrico Caruso's 78-r.p.m. performance of Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci, which sold well over a million copies. But last week Pianist Van Cliburn joined Caruso and a handful of other 78-r.p.m. giants, became the first artist to sell 1,000,000 classical LPs. His recording: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which captured first prize for him in the spring of 1958 in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition and which he recorded...
...fishermen was Enrico Mattei, 55, lean, restless boss of E.N.I., Italy's state-owned oil and gas monopoly. A rapidly growing power in international business, Mattei has outraged the major oil companies by flooding their European markets with his own gasoline (much of it made from Russian crude) and by moving into the Middle East and Asia with drilling bids so generous that they have all but made a dead letter of the traditional fifty-fifty profits split between the oil companies and the nations in which they operate...