Word: giorno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mercifully excepting a youthful fiasco called Un Giorno di Regno...
Stasera, a new Milan daily, closed shortly after Mattei died. One of Milan's morning papers cut editorial salaries by 20%, fired part of the staff, and canceled plans for an afternoon edition. An economy wave swept over Milan's Il Giorno, Italy's fourth largest daily. Two Rome papers began a steady descent toward oblivion...
Mattei directly controlled only one paper, Il Giorno. But E.N.I, was a leading advertising account for scores of others. When Rome's conservative financial daily, Il Globo, accused E.N.I, of unfair competition, the lucrative E.N.I, ads abruptly ceased. How much Mattei money was transferred into the Italian press remained a secret locked in Mattei's mind-and in his office safe. Without doubt, it was plenty. Before his death, the industrial swashbuckler told a visiting journalist: "That safe contains every one," meaning the long list of newspapers on Italy's top payola list...
...concessions to drill in Iran, India, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia and the Sudan. Italy's business leaders fumed as Mattei, building an empire worth $2 billion, poached on more and more preserves of free enterprise. E.N.I. now owns motels, cafes, a newspaper (Milan's Il Giorno), an atom power plant and factories producing synthetic rubber, cement, plastics, fertilizers...
...sing Salan's praise in print. The "commandant" stayed his execution and returned him to the Aletti with a message for all twelve Italian newsmen in Algiers: leave, or die. Eleven left by the next available plane. The twelfth, Nicola Caracciolo, 30, of Milan's Il Giorno, defiantly holed up in the Italian consulate for three days ("It is my moral and professional duty to stay at my post"). Then he, too, prudently fled to Rome...