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Zingone's heresy is a complete new city, now rising on 2,000 acres of faded countryside between two industrial centers, Milan and Bergamo. The community will be a "completely equipped organism," housing 1,000 or so light industries, which will provide jobs for an ultimate population of 50,000. Thus "Zingonia," as it is called, differs from most European new towns since it is a money-making private venture rather than a policy-serving public project...
Podgorny visited the huge industrial complex at Turin, was guest of honor at a gala performance of Rigoletto at La Scala in Milan, presided shortly thereafter at the signing of an official agreement for joint cinema production between the Soviet Union and Italy. He stayed at the Quirinale Palace during his visit to Saragat, but then moved out to take up residence at the Soviet embassy. Reason for the move: this week Podgorny was to become the first Soviet chief of state to visit the Pope, and he wanted to make clear his recognition that the Vatican and Italy...
Deals East & West. Combining the functions of commercial and investment bankers in the U.S., Reyre last year helped to float half of France's stock issues and 90% of its bond issues. Through branches and subsidiaries in New York, London, Geneva, Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan and Madrid, he shared the underwriting of 50 international securities issues. He helped Poland and Czechoslovakia to finance machinery buying in the West, formed a joint European subsidiary with the U.S.'s Bank of America, backed Monaco's Prince Rainier in his battle with Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis...
...prime themselves with such elixirs as raw eggs, whisky with sugar, iodine in milk, quinine pills, or stiff injections of vitamin C. Also popular are small doses of strychnine, which, according to one doctor, "tunes the vocal cords like violin strings." Says Dr. Geraldo de Marco, house physician at Milan's La Scala Opera: "We give so many shots that occasionally we run out and just give injections of water. The singers never know the difference, and afterward they always say how wonderfully they sang...
...Passagio" was written in 1962, and was performed at La Scala in Milan two years ago. Berio is presently at Harvard on a one semester teaching fellowship...