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While the world was keeping a wary eye out for a Libyan attempt on President Reagan or some other U.S official, terror struck from a different, and unexpected, quarter. A few grim facts came in an anonymous telephone call to the ANSA news agency in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier. A communiqué will follow...
...slopes this season. Inexpensive winter resorts report that reservations are running about the same as last year. But fashionable places like Cortina d'Ampezzo and Madonna di Campiglio show increases of as much as 22%. Less adventuresome spenders have plenty of high-priced entertainment to choose from. At Milan's La Scala opera house last week, for instance, the season's opener, Wagner's Lohengrin, was sold out at $160 a seat...
...which has turned a blend of Victorian ruffles and patterns into a nearly $100 million-a-year women's wear and home-furnishings company. The firm's line of frilly blouses, pastel flowered bedspreads and quilted tea cozies now sells from San Francisco to Singapore and from Milan to Melbourne...
...ridiculous go-kart track," sniffed the Milan newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. Thrown up on a parking lot in just 45 days, the 2.3-mile, 14-turn course does bear a certain resemblance to its kiddie cousin. It was built by Caesars Palace, the gaudy hotel and casino, as part of a $7 million effort to establish Formula One racing in Las Vegas. "Everything we do," a Caesars V.P. declared, "is designed to bring in gamblers. Major sports events bring good customers-high rollers...
DIED. Eugenio Montale, 84, stoic, reclusive Italian poet whose spare, often difficult verse, which he described as "an attack on life, with no illusions," won him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature; of heart disease; in Milan. Montale, who published his first volume of poetry, Bones of the Cuttlefish, in 1925, produced four more volumes over the next 50 years, supporting himself with jobs as a librarian and literary critic for Italian magazines and newspapers. A self-described "journalist," who regarded spiritual redemption as the only antidote to the tragic realities of life, he once explained that his poetry could...