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From the Alps to Sicily, 12 million workers walked off their jobs in a one-day general strike that paralyzed Italy. With Communist and anti-Communist unions allied in protest for the first time in twenty years, demonstrators poured into the piazzas of Rome and Milan to demand higher pension and social security benefits and to curse the rising cost of living. Outside the Fiat automobile plant in Turin, police broke up a riot with tear...
...drive home their point. Next came the turn of state employees to demand more pay and social benefits. For 24 hours, trains halted, mail distribution stopped, schools were deserted and telephone service snarled. Reflecting the crisis of confidence, capital once again began to flee from the country, and the Milan stock market slumped to a three-year low. In the middle of it all, the government resigned...
...encased in plaster from his toes to his zebra-striped bikini shorts, but for all that, the happiest man in Milan last week was probably Expatriate designer Ken Scott. At the height of a wild discotheque party, one of Scott's patent-leather pumps flew off and Scott himself caromed off the raised dance floor on his way to multiple fractures...
...Vinci. To relieve the congestion and bring order to the bedlam of 16th century Milan, he told its Duke, the community would have to be broken down into ten cities of 30,000 people each...
Zeffirelli's reputation was established at La Scala in Milan, where in 1954 he designed the costumes and sets for, and staged a production of Rossini's La Cenerentola. It was the beginning of the Zeffirelli style-the flamboyant baroque settings, the epic brio that could turn a war horse into a steeplechaser. Although triumphant in opera, he has been somewhat less successful on the dramatic stage. His incoherent Othello was throttled by reviewers at Stratford-on-Avon. After seeing Zeffirelli's Broadway production of The Lady of the Camellias, TIME's critic called...