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Revolution of Expectations. In Italy, where just after the war a cook could be had for $3 a month and a housemaid for $2.50, servants are scarce at $70 a month in Rome and $100 in the more prosperous northern cities such as Milan and Genoa. And a law passed in 1958 forces the employer to pay fringe benefits and bonuses that double the basic wage. Even at that, housewives are combing the desperately poor regions of Sicily and Sardinia for the underprivileged, down to eight-year-old orphans who cook while standing on kitchen stools. Classified ads plead...
University of Genoa, Italy...
Loyal Lady. In its brief, parochial career, Agence Europe has won itself a reputation for feats of espionage that would do credit to the CIA or Britain's M15. Headed since its foundation by grey-haired Emanuele Gazzo, onetime Genoa bureau chief for Italy's Ansa News Agency, Agence Europe has been unwrapping secrets almost from birth. Far ahead of official release, it reported on the original formation of the Common Market and Euratom, the Common Market countries' joint nuclear-development agency...
...position in private business. Presidents of Fiat or Pirelli often have to get their boards' permission before initiating changes. I don't." Several years ago, he rebuffed a government demand that Finsider build a plant in job-starved southern Italy, instead vastly expanded its plants in Genoa before moving down the Boot. Manuelli also publicly opposed the nationalization of Italy's electric power industry this year, arguing that it would only upset the stock market (it did) and "double the public debt." Socialists angrily demanded his scalp, but Manuelli held his job simply because he has done...
...powerful cardinals-Palermo's Ruffini and Genoa's Siri-supported Cardinal Ottaviani, who remarked to a friend, "We're always with Peter and under Peter, even when he is in the greatest danger." But others were not so sure. Said one Irish bishop: "We have had a mistaken idea that Cardinal Ottaviani represents the Holy See. We'll have to revise our definition of what the Holy...