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Glossiest train now running is Italy's Settebello, which barrels along at 98 m.p.h. between Rome and Milan, has cut the rail trip by two hours to 6 hr. 20 min. It carries only 160 passengers, and they can enjoy piped music, patronize the train's barber, manicurist, telephone, newsstand and shower. Despite a 45% surcharge, the Settebello is often sold...
Died. William Francis McHale Jr., 42. TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Rome; in the crash of a private jetliner that also killed Italian Industrialist Enrico Mattei; near Milan, Italy (see WORLD BUSINESS). A deft and imperturbable New Yorker. Bill McHale served four years with the Coast Guard during World War II, studied at Harvard Business School, and entered journalism as a business writer for Barron's Weekly; he joined TIME in 1949, was a writer for two years and then became a correspondent serving successively in Washington, London and Beirut before going to Rome...
Last week Mattel's luck gave out. As he was heading back from a business trip to Sicily, his private E.N.I jet ran into a soupy fog, crashed in flames ten miles south of Milan and killed the three men aboard...
...taking only 25%, he won concessions to drill in Iran, India, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia and the Sudan. Italy's business leaders fumed as Mattei, building an empire worth $2 billion, poached on more and more preserves of free enterprise. E.N.I. now owns motels, cafes, a newspaper (Milan's Il Giorno), an atom power plant and factories producing synthetic rubber, cement, plastics, fertilizers...
...Milan and ten other cities, the Socialists did move away from the Reds even before the apertura, and since then the process was repeated in two more cities. Mantua and La Spezia. But a real split between the parties is a long way off. Last week Fanfani's Christian Democrats demanded that the Socialists officially break with the Communists and ratify the move at a party congress. The Socialists shook the coalition by refusing even to hold such a meeting...