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...spent a profitably unprofitable day in Alabama, got an uncontested divorce and custody of the kids from "Ari." She asked no alimony. Ground: mental cruelty. Tina now has no admitted plans to wed anyone, not even her most constant recent escort, handsome young Venezuelan Moneybags Reinaldo Herrera Jr. In Milan stormy Soprano Maria Callas, 36, legally separated from her Italian husband and widely billed as the other woman in the Onassis breakup, said primly: "I can only confirm that a very tender and affectionate friendship still exists between Mr. Onassis...
...whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible. So abstract are all these works that they are beyond critical judgment...
...Milanese even defend their weather-last year Milan had 200 days of rain, hail, snow, sleet, fog and overcast. They assure visitors: "It's the kind of climate that keeps you moving. In Rome, all you feel like doing is looking out the window." A Milanese is always going somewhere: to his job, or to one of the cafes and bars in the glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe...
More of Everything. Milan last week was the pace setter in the astonishing postwar boom that has enabled the storied country of palaces, cathedrals and antiquities to climb in industrial production to third place in Western Europe. Nearly 500,000 cars throng the streets, which are wide by Italian standards and spotlessly clean by any standards. Traffic moves faster and with better discipline than in anarchic Rome, yet the accident rate is higher. The Milanese have an explanation: local drivers and pedestrians are so engrossed in important affairs that they often forget to look where they are going...
...Milan's Borsa accounts for nearly half of all Italian stock-market transactions. Milan's factories pour out motor scooters and motor cars, turbines and typewriters, boilers and books. With less than 1/25th of the nation's 50 million people, hardworking Milan pays 26% of Italy's national tax bill. Sometimes the Milanese jokingly threaten to secede and join Switzerland. If they did, the remainder of Italy would sink in economic significance to the level of Greece or Portugal...