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...Underwood takeover, one industrialist exulted: "Americans used to come here as if they were visiting Black Africa, but they've learned a thing or two." To a man. North Italian businessmen dislike the "Italian miracle" phrase that the Italian press began to use some years ago. Says Leopoldo Pirelli, 36, third generation of his family to run the huge (1961 sales: $220 million) Pirelli rubber company: "There's more perspiration than is normally involved in a miracle." The secret lies far closer to hand, in industrial imagination, high skills, hard work, aggressive ambition. Perhaps the finest result...
...Theorizing that musical talent is an inherited trait, famed Italian Otolaryngologist Leopoldo Fiori Ratti gave musical aptitude tests to the parents of the Vatican's Pueri Cantori choirboys and other children picked at random. At the Second International Congress of Human Genetics in Rome last week, he reported that 60% of Pueri Cantori parents had high musical aptitudes (though not necessarily training or interest), while only 20% of other parents showed high scores...
...five of the Catholic labor leaders agreed in citing psychological understanding as a more critical need than massive doses of foreign aid. "We are tired of being treated like adolescents who make 'problems' for their 'sugar-daddy'," declared Leopoldo Garcia of Brazil. "You don't find out about psychological attitudes in statistics. Even those who most sincerely want to help us base their judgements only on statistics and end up making grave mistakes," he said...
...Innocence. A shadowed subtle film about the painful adolescence of a young girl, directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine who knows his Bergman...
...Innocence. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in a shadowed study of purity, sin-and degeneracy...