Word: malfatti
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...about politics as he is about fashion, lost his Liberal seat in the Chamber of Deputies in spite of a campaign in which he averaged four speeches a day. Communist Novelist-Painter Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) was dropped from the Senate. On the other hand, Franco Maria Malfatti, a former president of the Common Market Commission, was easily re-elected a Christian Democratic Deputy. Admiral Gino Birindelli, until recently commander of NATO's Mediterranean naval forces and now the darling of Italy's right, also won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, representing...
...Brussels-based body of Eurocrats that was once expected to become a sort of European supergovernment. When Belgium's astute Jean Rey stepped down as commission president last week, it was somehow not surprising that he was succeeded by a relative unknown: Italy's Franco Maria Malfatti, 43, a second-ranking Italian government minister (post and telecommunications...
...musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
...remained faintly visible in about 60 feet of water. From the 15th Century on, people tried to raise them, merely succeeded in damaging them with grappling hooks. From the 16th Century on, divers brought to the surface excited reports and portable relics. In 1896 the eminent marine engineer, Vittorio Malfatti, worked out a feasible plan for raising the sunk galleys. But it remained for Benito Mussolini to carry out the plan. By his order a Roman drainage tunnel, which led out under a mountain, was reopened. Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started...
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