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With the Pope speaking so effectively, Italy's pollsters are cautiously predicting that the referendum to tighten the abortion law will win. A recent survey, commissioned by the Milan weekly Panorama, indicated that 60% of Italian voters-and 63% of the women-would approve the restricting referendum...
European executives used to be somewhat awestruck by the American "professional manager," and they considered it prestigious to hire someone who had earned the mysterious letters M.B.A. Comparable programs, with some courses taught by Americans, were started at the universities of London and Manchester, at Milan and at the European Institute of Business
...European dresser takes neatness seriously: The shirt--tucked in; the shoelaces--tied; the hair--combed. There is absolutely no substitute for refined taste when one is selecting from a range of articles that stretches across the Atlantic from Paris and Milan to 5th Ave., skips across 66th and all the rest of the way down Park. Armani, Ungaro, Valentino, Versace, Fendi, Dior, St. Laurent. Not many college students are able to pull off these designs. The few are bound to retain a high profile in any classroom...
...investiture? Maria Lea Pedini, 26, first woman Captain-Regent of tiny San Marino (a country 24 miles square perched on a mountainside in Italy), shunned the flat hat and knickers demanded by tradition last week. The pretty wife and mother chose a skirt and more feminine chapeau from a Milan designer. La Capitana wants reform in the world's oldest republic, where women were barred from voting until 1960, and where even today women lose citizenship if they marry foreigners. One obstacle to change: her term lasts only six months...
...hard-driving northerner, tanned, silver-haired, blue-eyed Armani remains as trim and fit as a male model half his age. His studio is in a 16th-century palazzo in downtown Milan. Despite the surroundings, he prides himself on "de-dramatizing" the female image. Armani maintains that "young women want to dress in a classic way, elegantly, but not a la Dior or Chanel in the '40s. Women today move differently. Today's body should not be confined by clothes that are too structured." Associates note that Armani collaborates closely with several women designers in his studio...