Word: milan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilot as a possible hijacker when the young man, Rich ard Allen Obergfell, 26, of New York City, grabbed her by the neck and, with an automatic pistol at her back, forced her toward the cockpit. He told the captain, Albert Hawes: "Take this plane to Milan. Italy...
Roman Holiday. Pilot Hawes convinced Obergfell that his craft could not reach Milan, so they arranged to return to La Guardia for one that was properly equipped. Obergfell seemed distracted, talking vaguely about personal problems. "If you knew," he told the stewardess, "if you knew." Later he asked Miss Concepcion if she wanted to go to Rome with him. "What can I say?" she asked, aware of the gun pointed at her head. "You haven't had a vacation yet, have you?" he asked. In fact, the stewardess had worked for TWA only two months...
...audience does nothing else, it can always enjoy this year's new visual delights within the 75-ft. proscenium. At stage rear and stage right are two modular kinetic sculptures by Czechoslovakia's Milan Dobes, 41, that provide a light-show backdrop of spinning whites, reds and blues for Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion. Even the players' chairs are part of a huge steel stage sculpture designed by Japan's Yasuhide Kobashi. Perhaps "chairs" is not the best word: the seats are actually wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that...
Typical of the anger and frustration prevailing in Italy's impoverished south was the situation in Catania, an industrial city at the foot of Mount Etna. Projected only a few years ago as the Milan of the south, the city today is overwhelmed by seemingly unsolvable credit difficulties. Voters there gave the neo-Fascists an impressive 21.5% of the vote. "It was a corrivo," said a worker. The word means "a boom of rage...
Died. Arnoldo Mondadori, 81, founder of Italy's largest publishing house; of kidney disease; in Milan. The son of an illiterate shopkeeper, Mondadori went to work as a printer's apprentice at 17 and ultimately bought out his employer. He then published cowboy stories, whodunits, comic books and greeting cards. One of Italy's leading picture magazines, Epoca, and Panorama, a newsmagazine, were also Mondadori products. His books include the first Italian translations of such writers as John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway...