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...Onassis already has headquarters in Montevideo, branch offices in Paris, London, New York, Hamburg and Panama. But since much of his tanker business is bringing oil from the Middle East through the Mediterranean to Northern Europe, he thought he should have offices near the Mediterranean ports of Marseille and Genoa, where many of his ships are repaired. To Onassis, some empty buildings he had seen on a visit to Monaco looked ideal. A year ago, he approached Monaco's Societe des Bains de Mer et Cercle des Strangers (Sea Bathing Society and Foreigners Club) which controls most Monacan real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Man Who Bought the Bank | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

Giuseppe Siri, 46, Archbishop of Genoa. A hero of the Resistance movement in Italy, he is a vigorous go-getter, a leader in Church welfare projects and in Italy's Catholic Action movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 24 Hats | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Died. Eliezer Kaplan, 61, Deputy Prime Minister (since last month) of Israel, former Finance Minister, and one of the chief architects of the hand-to-mouth Israeli economic policy; of a heart attack during a vacation trip; in Genoa. Russian-born, he migrated to Palestine in 1923, after playing an active part in Zionist affairs in Russia and Czechoslovakia. In 1937 he negotiated the first international loan made to Zionism-a ?2,000,000 grant from Lloyds Bank of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 21, 1952 | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Last week Genoa's Piaggio & Co., makers of Italy's first scooter, the Vespa (wasp), invaded the U.S. market with a roar. Sears, Roebuck & Co., which had ordered 1,000 Vespas as an experiment, sent a rush order for 5,000 more by September, and Piaggio prepared to supply Sears with up to 2,000 a month thereafter. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Country on Wheels | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...radio listeners lost their suit, promptly appealed to a higher court and, by last week, were enrolling so many new members that the post office had to add employees to handle the letters pouring into the association's Genoa headquarters. Radio Audizioni Italiane, apparently impressed by the revolution, modified its commercial ways. In its new 2 5-year contract with the government, it agrees to 1) limit commercials to 5% of broadcast time, 2) ban singing commercials and any advertising "which may cause disgust to the listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Italians Are Disgusted | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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