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Most of the mess is on the urban fringes, where land was cheap and speculators bought marginal farm land for a few lire per square yard, then subdivided and sold for profits of 500%. Many of the builders who bought the land dutifully filed for construction permits. But after months, even years, of waiting in vain for the creaky bureaucracy to move, most went ahead without permits and broke ground, confident that bustarelle -little envelopes stuffed with lira notes -would forestall any action by the city. Even when more conscientious officials discovered the wrongdoing, nothing happened. Over the past four...
...share her polite confusion. Why did Pirandello bother with this slight and static play? At most, it deserves a quick reading before dinner, as a contrast to his mature work. We are shown deception, but are not rewarded with a shield for our weakness; only with a few thousand lire and unspecified sexual remuneration...
...gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase, 54, of San Diego. Chase packed 52,000 banknotes in lire into three sacks, but not before police had microfilmed each...
...Sacks of Lire. Then, carefully following the kidnapers' instructions, Chase, in a rented car, headed south on the autostrada toward Naples. Just after passing Lagonegro, south of Naples, members of the gang pulled up alongside in a Citroën and pelted Chase's car with pebbles while the men inside rubbed their fingers together as a signal for money. Chase got the message and pulled over to the side. While he was handing over the sacks of lire, a car driven by a Rome detective with a pretty blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending...
That may answer the public's need for a villain, but it will do little to solve the city's long-range problems. It will cost billions of lire, which Naples clearly does not have, to upgrade the sanitation system. Meanwhile, the city's multitude of hard-core unemployed has been swelled by thousands of jobless fishermen, restaurant workers, peddlers and dockers. All are ripe targets for the violent rhetoric of left-wing and neofascist agitators. The disease may have been contained, but it will be a long time before Naples recovers from a more damaging illness...