Word: milan
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...Swiss bank called Amincor. The Swiss may have helped to arrange two foreign-currency sales for Franklin that resulted in phony profits of $4 million. This buttressed Franklin's shaky finances and enabled it to pay stockholders their dividends. Somewhere in the picture may have been the shadowy Milan-based international financier, Michele Sindona, who bought 22% of Franklin stock in 1972 and now is in mushrooming legal difficulty with the Italian government...
...this is made up for by the richness of detail in Codex Madrid II on his great sculptural project, the equestrian bronze of Francesco Sforza- Il Cavallo, as Leonardo called it, the full-size clay model for which was shot to rubble by French crossbowmen after the conquest of Milan in 1500. It would have been the largest bronze group in recorded history, 23 ft. high, cast upside down in one continuous pour of 158,000 lbs. of metal...
Others are using expensive but reliable courier services, paying as much as $8 to ensure delivery within 24 hours of a letter from Milan to Palermo. Northern Italians routinely drive an hour or more to mail letters in Switzerland...
...MILAN KUNDERA...
Thus the case of the Czech comic novelist Milan Kundera comes up at a time when to be persecuted in Czechoslovakia is not a clear advantage. Kundera's work was banned in Czechoslovakia not long after his novel The Joke was published in 1967. It was about a youth who innocently wrote a postcard to his girl friend that teased her about her dedication to Communism. His little joke got him seven years at hard labor. As Philip Roth notes in his introduction to Kundera's short-story collection Laughable Loves, the author also paid. Now 45, Kundera...