Word: fausto
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...show contains a few further surprises, such as the gritty and beautifully painted domestic dramas of Fausto Pirandello (1889-1975) and the best of all younger Duchampians, Piero Manzoni (1933-63), whose balloon full of artist's breath and cans full of artist's feces are wonderfully prophetic satires on a market mania whose present inflation he could scarcely have imagined...
...provinces of Salta and Tucuman, where troops backed Training Institute Director General Augusto Vidal for the top military post. Said one insider: "The President was not about to show that the rebels could put up a nominee." Still, Caridi's appointment was part of a high-command housecleaning. General Fausto Gonzalez, who was said to be a rebel favorite, was named deputy chief of staff. In all, 15 of the army's 29 serving generals retired and will be replaced by younger...
...past 15 years, Mengele has vanished behind a curtain of supposition and speculation, becoming an almost mythic figure whom many have claimed to have seen just about everywhere. The ubiquity is partly explained by the thesaurus of aliases under which he operated. At one point, Mengele called himself "Fausto Ridon," at another "Friederich Elder von Breitenbach." He also passed himself off as "Gregorio Gregori," "Jose Alvarez Aspiazu" and "Pedro Caballero...
Held were Fausto Calabria, 62, now chairman of Mediobanca, Italy's most powerful merchant bank, and Sergio De Amicis, 66, former president of Condotte, the state-controlled construction firm. Police said that between 1972 and 1982, when the two held top positions at I.R.I., they built up a cache of so-called black funds. This essentially loose corporate change can be spent at the discretion of top officials as bribes to gain foreign contracts, as political contributions or simply as untaxed executive bonuses. What happened to the I.R.I, money last week was a mystery. A total of $26 million...