Word: leopoldo
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...major interest. Decrying Italian financial companies as "a group of hens nesting on rocks," Merzagora's group demanded that Bastogi try to stimulate private investment rather than keep its capital in the serenity of real estate holdings. Another group, headed by Insurance Executive Ettore Lolli, joined with Tiremaker Leopoldo Pirelli to oust the conservative management of La Centrale, a holding company that had most of its $200 million portfolio in real estate and food. The new management has turned La Centrale toward a more active role in both domestic and foreign investment...
Stamping Down. Last week stockholders gathered in the 32-story Pirelli headquarters in Milan to hear from Chairman Leopoldo Pirelli, 40, about the company's 1965 performance-and they learned that the theory works even better in good times. Production outside and production inside Italy each accounted for $370 million in sales. Profits of the parent company and Pirelli International totaled $11,526,041, and the earnings of subsidiaries are still to be reported...
Spikes & Volts. Leopoldo Pirelli is a deeply tanned sailing enthusiast and an imaginative businessman, the third in the family line since Giovanni Battista Pirelli established the company in 1872 because his patriotism was hurt when Italy had to import rubber tubing to raise a sunken ship. He set up a factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride...
Father Nedel's African colony at the University in São Leopoldo suddenly went berserk, forced one of his assistants to take refuge in a truck, then turned on another man, two dogs and several children. Next day the Jesuit beekeeper ordered his eight African queens destroyed...
...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...