Word: milan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never read Gentlemen's Quarterly, and I've never really liked anyone who did--they always struck me as people who thought Stamford, Connecticut was a hell of a lot closer to Milan than it needs to be. So, in the end, the whole business seemed silly. With its reports on New Wave, and the latest ways to dispose of one's disposable income, reading GQ seemed downright unneccessary...
...final product is not as much in demand in Europe as in the U.S. Explains an Italian drug expert: "On such things Europe is about five years behind." Nonetheless, in cosmopolitan cities from Munich to Milan, prostitutes have easy access to cocaine for their customers, and fashionable restaurants and nightclubs have a ready supply for the would-be snorter...
Born in Italy, Giacconi completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Milan in 1954 and continued his studies in elementary particles at the University of Indiana and Princeton University with a Fulbright Fellowship. In the late fifties he joined American Science and Engineering Corp., where he began work in x-ray astronomy which led to the discovery of the first x-ray star...
Colonel Luciano Rossi of the Treasury Police shot and killed himself June 5 after accusations that he had passed state secrets to Gelli. The next day, onetime Minister of Foreign Trade Gaetano Stammati was admitted under an assumed name to a Milan hospital after suffering a heart attack. Listed as a lodge member, Stammati had been questioned about huge pay offs on oil deals with Saudi Arabia. Rome magistrates have so far advised 260 officials on the P2 list that they are being investigated. Fifteen of Italy's top generals and admirals have "gone on vacation," a euphemism...
...since 1947 for citizens to be members of any secret organization. What makes the P2 affair especially explosive, however, is the specter of the vast conspiracy raised in an investigating magistrates' report that also was divulged by Forlani. The scandal originally came to light during an investigation by Milan judicial officials into the affairs of Sicilian Financier Michele Sindona, an accused P2 member currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Investigating magistrates claimed to have found evidence that lodge members had helped Sindona...