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...Lucio Fontana, 53, who founded the spatialist school in Buenos Aires six years ago, also submitted a display. It was a spinning, nebular mass perforated with hundreds of tiny holes and lighted from the back. "We conceive of art," says Head Spatialist Fontana, "as the sum of physical elements-color, sound, movement, time, space-forming a physical, psychic unity . . . an art which must be communicated through new techniques and mediums." He foresees a day when vibrating images and even smoke will be televised as art. "For me," he says, "painting within a frame is dead, and sculpture as we know...
...long that it hides the bathing suit and so puffy that it resembles a maternity blouse. Other eye-catchers: the butterfly-winged cape which Princess Gabriella di Giardinelli ("Gabriellasport") designed for her yellow silk evening gown; a short evening dress of black lace on white organdie by the Fontana sisters; a white wool pullover, with close-fitting slacks, by Milan's Mirsa. Not only U.S. buyers, but Europeans, flocked to the salons. Plainly, the Italians were giving the French plenty of cause for worry...
...sources. He has recently arranged for: i) a $17,-500,000 preferred-stock issue to finance the rest of his new aluminum plant, and 2) $65 million in new private financing to add a third blast furnace, a ninth open-hearth furnace and 90 new coke ovens to his Fontana steel works in California...
Private investors are willing to plunk such huge sums into the Kaiser empire because, with the exception of K-F, it is making money fast. Fontana in the past five months alone has boosted ingot output by 16%, made more money in October than in any other month on record. Its earnings ($2,500,000 in the last quarter) are running 30% ahead of last year, v. a decline for the rest of the steel industry. Kaiser's aluminum company is also netting more after taxes than last year, despite a 60% increase in its tax bill. Kaiser...
After that more letters came-first from Francavilla Fontana, later from Naples, Salerno, Milan, Bologna, Trieste. "You gotta cry," Francesco told his customers. "They're all alike. All in bad shape. I wonder, how could the authorities let this happen? But I can't make no distinguish . . ." Patiently, month after month, Francesco mailed out packages of food in clothing. Sometimes he sent cash-"whatever we can spare...