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When he learned that he had won the 40,000-zloty (about $1,700) first prize. Pianist Pollini called his home in Milan, shouted "I'm fine, I won," and burst into tears. The son of a prosperous Milan architect, Maurizio started piano lessons when he was five, at eight was hiding Bach partitas behind his school textbooks. He displayed a prodigious musical memory: at a piano examination at which students had three hours to memorize a two-page composition, Maurizio memorized ten pages in 15 minutes. Although he has won various piano prizes, Maurizio was not widely known...
Seizing at this chance to dislodge the Italian Communists from their one real toehold in Italy, the nation's anti-Communist press and politicians burst into extravagant professions of horror ("An unheard-of attempt at corruption," cried Milan's Corriere della Sera; "A horrible tale," said Turin's La Stampa). Next day Milazzo resigned. His Communist allies for the most part maintained stunned silence, but to Rome's pro-Communist Paese Sera, it was all very simple. Milazzo, declared Paese Sera, was the victim of a Mafia plot...
Good Italian ballerinas are about as scarce as Russian boccie bowlers. But audiences at La Scala last week cheered a 23-year-old dancer, daughter of a Milan streetcar conductor, who was all but stealing the stage from Britain's famed Margot Fonteyn. Occasion: the world premiere of Fantasy at Grand Hotel, starring Ballerina Carla Fracci...
Liquidation Factor. In Milan, Italy, Giancarlo Monti confessed to police that he was forced to steal two cars a day in order to meet his daily drinking needs: 30 shots of brandy plus four liters of wine per meal...
...daughter of Robert Raymond, one of the three businessmen now serving a three-months prison term in Milan, Mich, for antitrust violations. I am very proud of my father's healthy and unbitter attitude toward this situation, and very ashamed of our judicial system, a weak link in our Government. If my father was serving as a martyr for a cause, I would feel differently; but never before have men been given a prison term for this violation...