Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enti, autonomous administrations which today number more than 1,000. (Exactly how many more nobody knows.) Perhaps 200 of these corporations, e.g., the Imperial African Transport Society and the ente in charge of Albanian banks, have long since outlived their functions and represent a net loss to the Italian taxpayers. But even more of a menace to Italy's economic health are such aggressive, purposeful enti as E.N.I., the burgeoning oil and gas corporation which, under the leadership of hard-driving Enrico Mattei (TIME, Nov. 29, 1954), has waged a determined fight to prevent private capital from sharing...
...months ago wispy, white-maned Premier Antonio Segni won parliamentary approval for his plan to put all state-owned corporations under a single "Ministry of State Holdings." The right was worried: in the hands of a zealous left-winger, the new ministry could spearhead an all-out assault on Italian free enterprise...
Last week Italy's free enterprisers abruptly stopped quivering. In a move that surprised friends and foes alike, Segni gave the new Cabinet post to brawny, brawling Giuseppe Togni, 53-year-old founder-president of CIDA, the Italian business executive union. A onetime marble cutter who worked his way up to a top management job in Italy's vast Montecatini chemical company, Christian Democrat Togni is a vocal exponent of free enterprise. He is also one of Italy's most unrestrained antiCommunists, two years ago set off the worst riot in Italian parliamentary history by bellowing...
...vodka to fuel his false fires. He is a middle-class spiv of genius, a portrait of all those who can make love or a piece of change among the ruins. In the wake of World War II armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick it up as you go along, boy") takes him to a last chance in Malaya, where he is supposed to dress up the unprecedented local elections...
...Life to Give. In Genoa, Italy. deciding that Mario Mattioli had lied about the length of his compulsory service and remained in the navy an extra year, the Italian government charged him with defrauding it of 730 meals, 1,125 cups of coffee, 2,190 cigarettes, two uniforms, two caps, two pairs of shoes, three pairs of socks, three sets of underwear, seven handkerchiefs...