Word: italiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rearranging the Portfolio. Moneymen expect that it will take the Vatican some time to shed all of its unwanted stock holdings. The church has retained a small number of Immobiliare shares, but recently sold its controlling interest in Italiana Condotte Acqua, a major construction firm, to a leading Italian holding company, Bastogi...
...young man, Agnelli could hardly have had it any better. His family has long flourished in Italy's subAlpine Piedmont, a region noted for its soldiers and industry. Grandfather Giovanni Agnelli gave up a military career in 1899 and founded, with partners, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino.* After some early hard times, Giovanni took personal control. Soon Fiat prospered on the strength of racing successes. It absorbed many early rivals and moved from artisan to assembly-line production, which enabled it to build 70% of the Italian Army's World War I trucks. The company went on to furnish...
...them were shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response was so bad," he recalls, "that the only possible thing to do was go right ahead and plan a second season before anybody could stop...
...season in Italy quieted down this year, it seemed to Impresario Gino Land! that it would be a shame to waste all those horses, women and gladiators; so he packed them all up and sent them to the U.S. for a multicity tour. Last week Landi's Festa Italiana opened at Madison Square Garden, and much to everybody's surprise, the extravaganza turned out to be a kind of 1st century Hellzapoppin...
...honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full gallop. The violence of it all would certainly get a thumbs down from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to People, but on the other hand, Festa Italiana is the only show in town that keeps the performers in stitches...