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...were equally evasive, hinting that the Kremlin might have leaked the letter to discredit Berlinguer in the eyes of hard-line party members. Panorama Journalist Carlo Rossella added to the mys tery, explaining that he had been given a translation of the letter at a surreptitious meeting in a Milan restaurant. But he refused to identify the informant...
...Federal Reserve into an unusual rescue mission of the mark. The two central banks each sold $500 million in dollars at midweek to prop up the weakening West German currency. In Zurich, the Swiss franc dropped into a two-year trough of 1.95 to the dollar, and in Milan the Italian lira plunged to a record low of 1,019 against the dollar. At the same time, the declining value of gold pushed bullion to $500.50 an ounce at week's end, or a little more than half the all time peak of $850 an ounce reached one year...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen ∙ Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson ∙Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙Other People's Worlds, William Trevor
...favor of the U.S., which is flooding the world market with superb teeth, great bones and fresh skin. More than 60% of the top models working in Paris, Hamburg and Munich are American. A high proportion of the models on the runways and in the photographic studios of Milan's fashion industry are from the U.S. Japanese talent scouts are so avid for fresh faces that they hang around schoolyards hoping to lure pretty young Americans and other gaijins (foreigners) into the model industry; the proper International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo has had to issue a stern...
After a stay in Munich or Hamburg, these impregnable Yanks move on, and none too soon, to the softening influences of Milan and Paris. Here the pace of business in photographers' studios seems lackadaisical; great blocks of hours crumble and disappear as assistants putter and the photographer unconcernedly takes his ease. There are still some in the business who have not learned about promptness. Yet business is the wrong word; what is going on in a French or Italian studio is the creation of art, and art must not be hurried. (The French and Italian editions of Vogue are rich...