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...Italy, the "Black Tuesday" following the two-day election saw the Milan stock market record its largest single-day drop since a government collapse coincided with a slumping market 15 years ago. Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Italy's giant Fiat automotive empire, warned that the results would "push us farther away from the Western world." Speculators sold the lira short. Moviemakers, many of whom are radical chic Communist voters, fretted that Western cinemoney would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Communists: A Step Closer to Power | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...From my experience and that of others, I can say that kidnaping today is a real, solidly based industry." Italian Jeweler Gianni Bulgari knew what he was talking about. He had just spent 31 days as a captive after his abduction during a traffic jam near Rome's Via Veneto. Last week Bulgari, 40, lighter by 20 lbs. and a little over $2 million in ransom, was found tied hand and foot in a stolen Fiat less than 500 yds. from his home in the luxurious Parioli district. He had spent the past month locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 28, 1975 | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...this illusion has stuffed the Borgia Apartments with a plethora of weak, vulgar bronzes of recent pontiffs. The only distinguished image of a Pope in the collection is one of Francis Bacon's variations on Velásquez's Innocent X. The gift of Italian Automobile Tycoon Gianni Agnelli, it sits, mouth open in a feral and silent snarl, glaring at the sacramental kitsch around it. But that it should be hung as "religious" art is unconscious black humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Labyrinth of Kitsch | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...Gianni Tognoni spoke about the Bertrand Russell Tribunal's investigation of the treatment of political prisoners in Latin America last night before a sparse audience at the Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russell Tribunal Judge Blasts Political Prisoners' Treatment | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

...their differences, the two brothers show every sign of working well together. At Fiat's most recent annual meeting, Gianni held his customary sway oh the podium, reaching out occasionally to accept a lighted cigarette from Umberto. Yet when Umberto has something to say about autos, Italian businessmen have learned to listen. Especially if Fiat's profit picture improves, many of them expect Gianni to withdraw slowly from active management of Fiat, concentrate on the family's sidelines-including insurance, banking, real estate, publishing and other financial interests besides autos-and turn the auto business over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Other Agnelli | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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