Word: mattei
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...postage stamps and petty cash are fair game, with office machines and TV sets running a bulky second. Occasionally, of course, the theft is an inside job, though most experts believe that the kleptomaniac junior exec and the light-fingered charwoman (a much-maligned breed) are the exceptions. Guido Mattei, Chicago manager of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, says: "Sneak thieves do a thorough job of hitting downtown office buildings, and we have found that a good 40% of these prowlers are narcotics addicts. Office thievery is the source of their next...
...petroleum monopoly E.N.I, last fall, scholarly Marcello Boldrini, 73, closed a deal to buy crude oil from Esso. His move spurred speculation that E.N.I, might be turning away from its Russian oil suppliers to resume a romance with the "seven sisters"-the name that his predecessor, the late Enrico Mattei, used to describe the big Western-owned oil companies. Last week, after Boldrini returned home from a week's visit in Moscow, it was clear that E.N.I, intends to keep right on doing business with the Russians...
...barrel v. $1.50 for oil from most Western companies. But Boldrini got at least a 20% discount from Esso, and there are signs that Shell and British Petroleum may be ready to do business with him. Obviously Boldrini is applying the tactic, used so masterfully by Mattei, of playing off the West and East to the advantage of E.N.I...
Stasera, a new Milan daily, closed shortly after Mattei died. One of Milan's morning papers cut editorial salaries by 20%, fired part of the staff, and canceled plans for an afternoon edition. An economy wave swept over Milan's Il Giorno, Italy's fourth largest daily. Two Rome papers began a steady descent toward oblivion...
...Mattei directly controlled only one paper, Il Giorno. But E.N.I, was a leading advertising account for scores of others. When Rome's conservative financial daily, Il Globo, accused E.N.I, of unfair competition, the lucrative E.N.I, ads abruptly ceased. How much Mattei money was transferred into the Italian press remained a secret locked in Mattei's mind-and in his office safe. Without doubt, it was plenty. Before his death, the industrial swashbuckler told a visiting journalist: "That safe contains every one," meaning the long list of newspapers on Italy's top payola list...