Word: giovannis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such was the situation in the moun tain town of San Giovanni Rotondo, not far from Foggia in southeastern Italy. Here was a shrine to a saint who was not only popular but who provided the extra added attraction of being alive as well. Padre Pio was not officially a saint; to qualify for sainthood, one must be dead and have been responsible for at least four unchallenged miracles. But one day in 1918, the Capuchin friar looked at his hands and what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves...
...said that when money talks even the angels listen. In Rome rumors of thefts, mismanagement and waste began to filter into the Vatican. In 1960, Girolamo Bortignon, Capuchin Bishop of Padua, began to complain to powerful friends in the Holy See that the activities in San Giovanni Rotondo would bear an investigation. Pope John sent an emissary, Msgr. Carlo Maccari, to the busy shrine with directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing...
...Cleanup. A few days later, on the 50th anniversary of Padre Pio's ordination, congratulations came from all over the world, including a warm message from the Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini, a longtime friend. But from the Vatican came not a word. Instead, Maccari returned for a cleanup. Result: the trinket vendors drifted away, and the Spiritual Daughters were shorn of their powers. There were cries of "inquisitor," but Maccari had his way. Padre Pio was put under guard, and he soon found himself virtual prisoner in his own convent; his mail was opened and read...
...Italy's greatest industrial dynasties began only 25 miles and nine years apart, and rose with parallel vigor to worldwide fame. In Turin in 1899 Giovanni Agnelli established Fiat, destined to become Italy's leading auto producer. Nine years later, in sleepy Ivrea, Camillo Olivetti founded the typewriter company that became equally famous for its office machines. But fortune has not smiled equally on the two in recent years, and last week one dynasty had to bail out the other. Organizing support from a syndicate of banks and businessmen, Agnelli's grand son rounded up $50 million...
...Grandsons Roberto and Camillo Olivetti, representing two different factions. About all that they have been able to codecide is that they need the Agnelli syndicate to come in and buy one-third of Olivetti. To run Fiat and some 110 other companies that range from cement to Cinzano vermouth, Giovanni Agnelli's twelve heirs have put their combined holdings into a smoothly functioning holding company called Istituto Finanziario Industriale...