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...clients. Yet they do not often concede the degree of freedom given to Italian Architect Giovanni Michelucci, 73, in his new Church of St. John the Baptist. His client was the governmental superhighway authority (modeled on the New York Port Authority) that built the Autostrada del Sole from Milan to Naples. It wanted a memorial to dead highway-builders, and put no limitations of time, size, form or budget on Architect Michelucci...
...sales company. Most important, G.E. obtains a secure European base from which to battle comfortably ensconced IBM for a continental computer market expected to reach $3 billion in sales by 1970. No sooner had the French discussions ended last week than G.E. executives moved on to Milan to extend that base. Italy's Olivetti, which makes small computers and office machines and is also having difficulties, is anxious for the same sort of help. Preparing to extend it, G.E. seemed likely to accomplish more by its two bits of bargaining than it had managed in two years of independent...
...Italy, a delegation headed by Deputy Premier Gogu Radulescu hit the Innocenti metallurgical factory in Milan and the Fiat auto plant in Turin in connection with a recently signed Rome-Bucharest trade agreement. Earlier an other Deputy Premier, Gheorghe Apostol, floated down the Danube enjoying the hospitality of Austria aboard a vintage riverboat replete with wine and willfulness. "Rumania won her in dependence in 1867," Apostol argued, "and will follow a policy of furthering her own interests. By 1970, Rumania will be a land of industry that must be reckoned with internationally...
...miracle happened," says Manzù. "Everything suddenly seemed clear, and inspiration for the doors flowed into my mind and consciousness." Working with Monsignor Giuseppe de Luca, an old friend and a priest-publisher from Rome, Manzù finished the design in 1962. The work was then cast by two Milan foundries, using a new bronze formula created by Montecatini chemical laboratories near Milan...
Ignore the plot: something standard about a Sicilian boy (Alberto Sordi) who makes good in Milan, comes home to visit the old folks, and suddenly finds himself, his pretty young wife and his two darling daughters involved in the insidious toils of La Mafia, the feudality of terror that for several centuries has ruled Sicily with poniard, pistol and poison. Smile a bit sadly when Sordi, a born comedian, tries to play the hero straight. And wink when the director, obviously afraid his customers will get sick of all that lumpy peasant pasta, slyly introduces a piece of smooth Brazilian...