Word: milan
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Sofu's Sogetsu (Grass Moon) school not only has a multifoliate following (more than a million dues-paying members) in Japan but has won converts and mounted shows from Moscow to Milan, Manhattan to Paris (where Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower...
Campus ferment reached its climax last spring in widespread leftist-led student protests over bleak job prospects for new graduates and chronically overcrowded classrooms. At Milan University young "proletarian committees" brought teaching to a standstill, destroyed books and scientific instruments. At Bocconi University, a Milan business school, three masked urban guerrillas destroyed the computer center. In Bologna, a 25-year-old medical student was shot dead by police during a youth rampage in a 20-block commercial district near the campus, and his death triggered more bloody riots in Rome...
...svelte, it was only because she dieted away 70 Ibs. fairly early in her career-losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge of fame as a singer in Verona and Venice and finally Milan, she weighed so much (more than 200 Ibs. at one point) that she refused to sing Madama Butterfly simply because she felt she looked ridiculous for the part...
...sensational escape of the man whom Romans called "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves" rocked Italy out of its holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory...
Terrorist Reprisals. Outside the court, terrorist commandos disguised as carabinieri stormed two Milan factories and set them on fire, causing damage estimated at $55 million. Three Red Brigades women shot Rome University's dean of the business faculty...