Word: giulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...POPES' NEPHEWS DON'T PAY THEIR TAXES, yelled Italy's left-wing (but antiCommunist) weekly L'Espresso. The facts were not that simple, but they were enough to stir Italy's increasingly overt anticlericalism. Don Giulio Pacelli, 47, nephew of Pope Pius XII, has long been a well-known man-about-the-Vatican. A prince and a colonel of the Noble Guard, he has held positions in many offices of the Vatican administration and many Congregations of the Curia. Currently he represents Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping...
Called in to study the find Giulio Jacopi, director of Rome's Museo del Terme, a top archaeological authority, examined the fragments and made an excited announcement: on some of them he found the Greek inscription, "Done by Agesander, Polydorus and Athenodorus," the father and sons generally credited with the original Laocoön group. Said Jacopi: "That violently twisted neck . . . that great marble foot . . . the veins on that huge hand . . . the serpent is monstrous ... I believe it is Laoco...
...chance to sing the Count des Grieux in Manon in Rome. After that, his career picked up a dizzying momentum. Toscanini invited him to sing at La Scala, where he scored such a hit in Boito's Nerone that in 1926 Metropolitan Opera Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed...
...marine turbines of such ships as the Rex and the Conte di Savoia gave Alfieri a taste for hefty engines. At Maserati he is forever trying to balance his desire for a lot of cylinders with the racer's need for resistance to wear and tear. It took Giulio more than two years of arguing, pleading, cajoling, storming to convince Maserati's high brass that a twelve-cylinder engine was the logical evolution from their successful six-cylinder, 2.5-liter racer...
...socialist economy that is already 40% government-owned. Italian financial leaders have tried to convince the government that a dividend tax levied directly on corporations would be cheaper to collect and harder to dodge. But last week, after a long series of conferences with fellow Ministers, Finance Minister Giulio Andreotti was unable to draft a compromise. At a 17-hour meeting in Rome, stockbrokers from every city in Italy vowed to continue the strike ad oltranza-to the bitter...