Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the globe, others shared America's enthusiasm. In Paris, emergency electrical generators were turned on to keep TV tubes glowing through the night. In a crowded bar on Rome's Corso di Francia, one Italian disparaged the Apollo achievement-and was clobbered in a fist-swinging, bottle-throwing brawl. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito canceled a botanical outing in the woods to watch TV. In Germany and in Uruguay, police reported a sharp drop in crime while Eagle was resting on the moon. Said a West Berlin police sergeant: "I wish there were moon landings every night...
...rest of the program matched Madame Carmirelli's Romantic tastes. It included a modern Italian violin sonata and a piano-violin sonata by Ferruccio Busoni. The Busoni piece went smoothly, with thematic-seeming material floating by with all of the grace of the turn of the century. Someone once said of Busoni that "he was hopelessly ahead of his time when he was writing and is now hopelessly Romantic." That adequately describes his sonata. It probably says a lot about the program and the performance at the concert as well...
...million. Last March, only one month after McKee appointed him joint managing director, CTIP's Gian Vittono Cavanna started secret negotiations with Technip, a French government-owned engineering firm. Without telling McKee, Cavanna signed a general agreement calling for a reshuffling of CTIP ownership among Technip, McKee and Italian companies. The idea was that divided leadership would enable CTIP employees to run their company themselves, rather than let tight control remain with the parent organization in the U.S. Despite the threat of a costly walkout, CTIP's McKee-controlled executive committee fired Cavanna and two of his collaborators...
McKee's executives were flabbergasted. When the company bought a 94% interest in CTIP three years ago-for $1.5 million in stock and cash-the Italian firm was in shaky condition as a result of an unprofitable project in Egypt. Since then CTIP's net worth has risen 450%, to $5,000,000. It has won important new business in Latin America, Spain and Scandinavia, and added Gulf and British Petroleum as major clients...
Among other things, CTIP strikers demand Italian (or at least European) managerial control, a 30% salary increase, employee profit-sharing and employee participation in company decisions. They have brought in CISL, Italy's powerful Christian Democratic trade union, to represent them, while McKee has the backing of Italy's Confederation of Italian Industry. Somehow, McKee President Merrill Cox must figure out how to regain control of a firm whose employees are its only real assets...