Word: medici
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Cage to Vault. A small, enthusiastic and well-read man whose heroes are the Renaissance Medici, Don Bruno has always followed the green flag of money and charmingly ingratiated himself with men of wealth, power and connections. At 19, he followed his merchant father to the U.S., learned the banking business from cage to vault at San Francisco's Bank of Italy under the immigrant Gianninis, and turned a substantial fortune speculating in stocks. On vacations in Mexico, he struck up a profitable palship with Manuel Avila Camacho, who, on becoming President in 1940, invited Pagliai to settle...
...book's villainess-heroine is Catherine de' Medici. A stumpy Italian woman who had been married at 14 to the man who was to be Francis II of France, she had studied under Machiavelli and learned her lessons well. The women of the French court thought her middle class, but ambassadors to the Louvre knew where the power lay. After her husband's death in 1559, Catherine ruled France for 30 years while a succession of three weak sons occupied the throne...
...second biggest bank, New York's Chase Manhattan. On the strength of his name alone, David Rockefeller is entitled to sit with the powerful, but as head of the Chase he is much more?he is a prime mover in a profession that since the days of the Medici has heavily shaped the course of the world's economic affairs...
...Template. Catherine de' Medici decreed that women should strive for a waist measurement of 13 inches. Sophia Loren sets the template...
...Amid speculation that Migratory Medici Huntington Hartford, 50. was in a nesting mood again, ex-Second Wife Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 31, weighed in with some advice for her rumored replacement, Philadelphia Model Diane Brown, 22. Counseled the onetime cigarette girl who turned painter-actress under the spreading A. & P.: "Don't become just another project of Hunt's. You can become a sort of child of his -a spoiled child. It seems strange now, that after twelve years of marriage to Hunt, I knew nothing about cleaning house, paying bills or doing the shopping." . - "I have gone...