Word: giovanni
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...relatively low price? One possible reason involves the offer of both the Rousseau and the Van Gogh to Italian Auto Tycoon Giovanni Agnelli. Agnelli also happens to have an interest in Marlborough, a firm that -under the guidance of Frank Lloyd, a dealer of legendary if unloved astuteness-has in the past decade become the world's richest gallery complex, with main offices in New York, London and Rome, a branch in Tokyo and a network of holding companies in Liechtenstein. Fiat had agreed to design and build four air-conditioned "Artmobiles" equipped to carry shows all over...
...nearly two decades, the name Fiat has been synonymous with the indomitable personality of Giovanni Agnelli (TIME cover, Jan. 17, 1969), the son of Fiat's founder and the president who transformed the huge industrial firm into a major multinational empire. Thus it has come as something of a shock to many Italians recently to learn that there is yet another Agnelli in their future. In the 13 months since he was named to Fiat's No. 2 job, taking over nearly all of the corporation's day-today operations, Younger Brother Umberto Agnelli, 38, has stepped...
...roll is headed by the President of Italy, Giovanni Leone, whose principal task is overseeing the formation of new governments. Since cabinets and coalitions topple frequently in Italy this is almost a full-time assignment. Not so the work of the lesser eminences who preside over such agencies as the Insurance and Welfare Agency for Veterinarians, the National Agency for Assistance to Infants in Border Regions and the Provident and Assistance Board for Midwives...
...Juan is a classic example, and the story, as Moliere tells it, is not substantially different from Mozart's Don Giovanni, though distinctly less glorious as a work of art. Don Juan is a great seducer, charmer, liar and baneful curse to his father (Bill Moor), but he is something of more disturbing grandeur than that. He is a rebel on the scale of Lucifer. He defies God by challenging the order of things, by being as great an amoralist as one presumes God to be a moralist. He scoffs at fidelity, truth and honor as the manacles...
Died. Eugene Berman, 73, Russian-born painter who led the neoromantic movement in Paris during the '20s but found his real forte three decades later as a designer of lush sets for New York's Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni) and the opera stages of Europe; in Rome...