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Long before Anna's real estate and construction company, Beni Immobili Italia, last year joined SACIE, a larger rival in the building business, the 60-year-old Milan matron had become rejected-and feared-by captains of Italian industry. As far back as 1956, Alberto Pirelli, the tire magnate, chose Anna to put up his empire's 32-story headquarters in Milan. "I look at the price and the quality," he said, "not the sex." Three years ago she initiated a move by major shareholders of La Centrale, a leading holding company, to take power away from...
Italy does have ardent conservation groups like the Rome-based Italia Nostra (Our Italy), which has prodded the government into curbing commercial development in at least one of Italy's forest areas. Now the public, the courts and regional governments are beginning to stir. A Rome magistrate, for example, has ordered Mayor Clelio Darida to install equipment to treat the city's sewage, much of which now flows raw into the River Tiber, or spend three months in jail for every day he fails to fulfill the order. Such a system, say city engineers, will cost $160 million...
This week the first U.S.-built LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessel is scheduled to dock near Philadelphia, completing a maiden voyage to the Mediterranean. Officers of Prudential-Grace Lines note that the Lash Italia 's round trip is taking only 34 days, compared with the normal 54 for a conventional carrier. By saving that much time-and, consequently, a good deal of money -U.S. shipowners expect to overcome their cost handicap...
...million Lash Italia achieved its speed record not by moving at a superfast clip but by swiftly loading and unloading in ports. Most cargo ships spend half their time in port, including considerable waiting for dock space. The new ship can stay offshore, outside the port, while tugs deliver barges to it or pick up barges from it. The Lash Italia has a 500-ton capacity crane that hoists the vessel's 63 lighters (each 61 ft. long) over the stern and stows them in the open holds. Bypassing the crowded docks, the ship stopped at Barcelona for only...
Prudential-Grace's second barge-carrier, the Lash Turkiye, sailed two weeks ago on the same route as the Italia, and nine more LASH ships are under construction in the U.S. The vessels are designed to operate with a 31-man crew, but maritime unions forced Prudential to hire 38. Fearful of losing jobs because the barges can be unloaded in mid-harbor and towed to distant river points, longshoremen wrested a promise from shipowners to load only at dockside in the U.S. Despite such make-work arrangements, shipping men expect the LASH vessels to open...