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...some henchmen drove four Ministery of Education trucks into the Treasury building. All climbed out carrying suitcases. "What are you going to do, rob the Treasury?" joshed a guard. "Quién sabe?" replied baby-faced Joseé Alemán. Forthwith, his men scooped pesos, francs, escudos, lire, rubles, pounds sterling and about $19 million in U.S. currency into the suitcases...
...playing his accordion for them. Instead of his clerical soutane, he wore a beret and turtleneck sweater. Unfortunately, he was never able to dodge conventional economics. With most of its citizens too young to earn enough money to support the colony, Nomadelphia accumulated a disastrous debt of 310 million lire (nearly $500,000). By last month the creditors were growing restless...
Quadriennale officials, with 90 million lire ($145,000) to spend, set out to make this year's show the biggest & best ever, took over Rome's sprawling marble Palazzo delle Esposizioni to house it. To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...
...Italian Senate recommended that the government's annual subsidy to opera (last year 2 billionlire-about $3,000,000) be cut in half. Among those badly hit, if the government follows the Senate's advice: Milan's famed La Scdla, which counts on its 400 million-lire subsidy for half of its budget...
...Marshall Plan officials, the government decided to reform all that. Under the new tax law, filled with all kinds of clauses to tempt the taxpayer to be honest, income tax blanks went on sale (another curious Italian custom) in the nation's tobacco shops at 25 lire (4?) each. But last week, when tax returns fell due, the mice couldn't get at the cheese. Speculators had bought up the whole available supply of tax blanks, and were selling them at black market prices ranging up to 500 lire (80?) a blank...