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...most photographed figure, but the publicity about Raquel Welch, 24, goes only skin-deep. Though she has two children, Damon, 5, and Tahnee, 4, in school in England, Raquel has flatly refused to confirm that she has ever been married or even that the tykes are hers. Milan's weekly magazine Gente did its bit by publishing photostats of Raquel's license to marry one James Wesley Welch in Clark County, Nev., on May 8, 1959. It was a minor coup. What Raquel-watchers really pine to know is whether she's currently married to Patrick Curtis...
Died. Ferdinando Innocenti, 74, one of the Milan industrialists responsible for Italy's post-World War II economic boom, best known for his Lambrettas, the low-cost scooter that in the 1950s helped put every paisano in the driver's seat, but which were only a small part of his $500 million empire producing steel tubing, heavy machinery, steel furnaces (including a recently completed $400 million steel mill in Venezuela) and English Austins and Mini-Minors with zippy Latin bodies; of a heart attack; in Milan...
Biggest of the builders is Milan's Impregilo, which is a permanent com bine of three firms. It is responsible for four African dams, another in Iran, and one under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...fringes, a truck driver about $5,000. Moving beyond Africa also means higher costs for employers. Not the least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River. Many of the 400 skilled GH Insabbiati flying out to do it will probably never return to Italy...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...