Word: milan
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Died. Marcello Boldrini, 79, Italian scholar-turned-executive who in 1962 succeeded the dynamic Enrico Mattei as president of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Italy's worldwide, state-owned oil corporation; of a brain tumor; in Milan. A onetime professor of statistics, Boldrini joined ENI in 1948 as president of its distributing company, and was vice president of the sprawling complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into...
What to do? Like many displaced U.S. basketball players these days, the pair hit on a happy alternative: dribble off to Europe. Tillman, 22, is currently averaging 19 points a game for Simmenthal, a team sponsored by a Milan meat-packing firm of the same name...
Tillman lives with his wife Paula in a modern, two-bedroom apartment in Milan furnished by Simmenthal, which also picks up the tab for incidentals. Last month, when Tillman's wife entered the hospital to have her first baby, the company took care of all the bills...
...Dictator Benito Mussolini and a representative of Pope Pius XI, the pacts successfully survived World War II, Mussolini's fall and even a new post war constitution. But as Italy marked the 40th anniversary of the signing last week, there were audible signs of dis content. Students in Milan tried to at tend classes - closed for the day - to dramatize the need for revising the concordat. Other university militants scattered pamphlets in St. Peter's Square...
...other fields, Olivetti's business machines are known the world over. Pirelli exports tires to more than 100 countries, and has become the Continent's biggest tire company. In publishing, Milan's Fabbri Brothers created a major business by capitalizing on Italy's rising educational levels and its fascination with installment-plan buying. They brought out high-quality serializations of The Divine Comedy, the Bible and other works, now sell more than 1,000,000 copies a week on Italian newsstands. Italian designers are famed for what they do with silks and leather, and their fashions...