Word: milan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thin, gray-haired man flew from New York City aboard TWA Flight 842 in the custody of U.S. marshals, who turned him over to armed Italian police at Milan's Malpensa Airport. Then he was flown to Rome and whisked to Rebibbia prison, where he now occupies a cell recently vacated by Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. With such swift efficiency, the U.S. last week shipped Michele Sindona, 64, home on the day that a new extradition treaty with Italy went into effect...
...Hugo Boss is the name of a fast-growing company with headquarters not in the fashion capitals of Paris and Milan but in the small West German town of Metzingen, 19 miles from Stuttgart. Sales of Boss's stylish suits, sports jackets, sweaters and other men's clothing jumped 30% last year, to about $60 million. After years of rising popularity in Europe, the Boss line is now making inroads in the U.S. as well. Thanks to Boss, the country that gave the world BMW cars and Becks beer is becoming a force in high-fashion...
Although the indigenous population the area is only 7 million (including 16,000 ski instructors), some 40 million vacationers have trooped through the mountains each year since 1980. An additional 60 million day trippers from such nearby cities as Munich, Salzburg and Milan have motored through the passes and hiked through the high pasturelands annually. The Alps, once an almost insurmountable barrier between north and south, are now crossed by some 50 airlines, seven rail services and 30 major highways...
...Soviets marched into Czechoslovakia, Josef Skvorecky marched out, heading for Canada. On the way, he ran across his countryman Milan Kundera in Paris. Brooding over the Nazi invasion of their homeland during World War II, the Soviet occupation of the moment and the possibility of exile, Kundera sighed, "There's been too much of everything. How much longer do you think we can last...
That was the assessment of TIME's European Board of Economists, which held its twice-yearly meeting last week in the Italian resort town of Cernobbio, outside Milan. Said Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and Executive Vice President of Credit Suisse: "Europe's substantial pickup seems to believe recent theories about the inevitable stagnation of the old Continent in contrast with the youthful vigor of the U.S. and Japan. We still seem to possess talents for aggressiveness and innovation in world markets...