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...even newer trend is the skiing vacation in Europe. A skier who catches Alitalia's 8 p.m. Flight 603 at Idlewild Airport on Friday is in Milan Saturday morning at 9:20, ready to jump into a rented Fiat for the drive to Cervinia. At noon, he is schussbooming down the flanks...
...voice from fright before a Parma performance of Boheme ("I can't sing tonight; something has tightened my throat up," said she), and Conductor Basile, in an effort to appease the gallery, fired four of the weaker members of the cast. It was all too much for Milan's Opera Singers' Union. Unless the manners of the gallery improved, said the union, its singers would be forbidden to appear in Parma...
...Italian government and U.S. aid money poured in, is still primarily a land of hunger and hopelessness. In startling contrast gleams the prosperity of North Italy, which has replaced the U.S. as the near and visible promised land in the dreams of impoverished Sicilians and Calabrians. "California begins at Milan," runs the current folklore of South Italy and each day hundreds of southerners board northbound trains to seek the living wage they cannot find at home. Last year some 70,000 of them settled in Milan alone...
Ferdinando Innocenti, 71, is another who combines restless curiosity with shrewd economic sense. One day before World War II, Innocenti, then a small-time maker of steel pipe in Milan, bumped his head on a wooden scaffolding. This, in Da Vinci style, led him to develop the lightweight steel scaffolds now standard the world over. After the war, he bent his tubes into a motor scooter frame and, with his Lambretta, rode the crest of Italy's pent-up demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery...
...Revolutionaries. But even where the government is strongest, North Italy's private industry manages to flourish. Though the state produces 55% of Italy's steel, Milan's Falck Steel succeeds by specializing in high-grade alloys. Periodic talk of nationalization of the electric power industry fails to faze ramrod-backed Giorgio Valeric, 57, managing director of Italy's largest utility, the Edison Group. Snaps Valerio: "We've doubled output in ten years, and we're still going ahead. Politicians are conservatives. We industrialists, we are the revolutionaries...