Word: milan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most photographed figure, but the publicity about Raquel Welch, 24, goes only skin-deep. Though she has two children, Damon, 5, and Tahnee, 4, in school in England, Raquel has flatly refused to confirm that she has ever been married or even that the tykes are hers. Milan's weekly magazine Gente did its bit by publishing photostats of Raquel's license to marry one James Wesley Welch in Clark County, Nev., on May 8, 1959. It was a minor coup. What Raquel-watchers really pine to know is whether she's currently married to Patrick Curtis...
With the foreign-tourist season nearing an end, Italians themselves were vacationing. On a single August weekend, more than 1,000,000 Romans had deserted the Eternal City, Milan had been depopulated by 700,000, and Turin by 350,000. And as they lolled on beaches or hiked up mountain slopes, the Italians could happily contemplate a national economy that ranks among Europe's strongest. It features prosperity without inflation...
...stations and stores in return for bills; some banks are issuing 500-lire cashier's checks that pass from pocket to pocket as legal tender. Several big department stores offer scrip instead of change, and grocers often make change in the form of potatoes or pieces of chocolate. Milan's San Siro race track pays off in scrip-good only at the track-and customers at Sorrento's Fauno Bar have been reduced to writing checks so as to tip the waiters. Inevitably, there have been floods of funny money: in Bologna, one trail of fake cashier...
Died. Ferdinando Innocenti, 74, one of the Milan industrialists responsible for Italy's post-World War II economic boom, best known for his Lambrettas, the low-cost scooter that in the 1950s helped put every paisano in the driver's seat, but which were only a small part of his $500 million empire producing steel tubing, heavy machinery, steel furnaces (including a recently completed $400 million steel mill in Venezuela) and English Austins and Mini-Minors with zippy Latin bodies; of a heart attack; in Milan...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...