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...born in 1917, Angleton pére established himself as a star salesman for the National Cash Register Co. In the 1920s he took charge of the company's European operations. In 1933 he bought the firm's franchise for Italy and moved his family to Milan and later to Rome, where they lived in a handsome old villa. For years he headed the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and was the trusted bridge between the American embassy and Italian industry...
Bill Bradley, former Princeton star and present forward for the New York Knicks, started the influx nine years ago when he led Simmenthal of Milan to a European championship while attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Some of the current crop of imports are also well known back home: Tom McMillen, the 6-ft. 11-in. star for the University of Maryland last year, continues the Bradley tradition by commuting from Oxford to play weekly games for Sinudyne of Bologna. Jim McDaniels, who plays for Snaidero of Udine, was once a high-priced player for the Seattle Supersonics...
...biochemist and his bride of four months-forces him to stop. "We haven't even had a honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended in divorce, does find time to relax. His golf game is good enough (in the low 80s) to allow him to pair up occasionally with an acquaintance named Jack Nicklaus...
...late Milan Greer, who founded Manhattan's Fabulous Felines, one of the country's biggest dealers in purebred cats, demonstrated greater knowledge of feline personality than human psychology when he claimed that he sold few cats to blacks or Orthodox Jews, because they were "rejected minorities who don't want to be rejected...
...almost any place along the boot of Italy, there is evidence of breakdown. In Rome, hundreds of police fought pitched battles with 600 left-wing students in a square in the picturesque Trastevere section, Rome's equivalent of the Left Bank. Outside Milan, arsonists, probably belonging to a leftist group called the Red Brigades, burned down the warehouses of a company associated with ITT, destroying $10 million worth of telephone equipment. Near Naples a mob of unemployed men, along with their families, blocked a main north-south railway line. Fifty people were arrested before the line was reopened...