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...year from their commercial monopoly as middlemen for all Italian trade with Eastern Europe); they are minutely organized and cleverly led, even able to turn to advantage such anti-Communist events as financial aid from the U.S. Example: a U.S. contract recently allowed a closed-down factory in Milan to reopen; because they had been shouting for its reopening, the Reds took public credit for the event...
...within hours of his resignation; two of Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible in the present situation," said Turin's La Stampa, which is owned by Fiat. Added Milan's respected Corriere della Sera: "The rank and file of the party, supported by a large percentage of the clergy and even the episcopate, have turned left ... at the same time that the Christian Democratic Party hierarchy has stood still...
Locomotive Engineer Luigi Cremonini, who flies from Rome to Milan, is an art-minded man, and his fellow workers call him "the Professor." During station stops he makes a habit of sketching in his cab. When his son was born 28 years ago, Luigi Cremonini hopefully named the boy Leonardo Raffaello. Father and son spent days off together painting by the green-scummed Navile Canal, which connects their native city of Bologna...
After four years' formal art training in Milan, young Cremonini began to show signs of fulfilling his father's dreams. At 26 he won a' French government scholarship to study in Paris. Cremonini has never yet had a major showing in Italy, but this week a startling exhibition of his. art opened at Manhattan's Catherine Viviano Gallery...
Among the operagoers who heard Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco sing at Milan's La Scala last week was a blind woman named Irene Meyer, 33, from Gaithersburg, Md. Two years before, she had heard him sing Radames in Aïda at Manhattan's Metropolitan. Stricken with incurable diabetes, Irene told friends in Gaithersburg that what she wanted most of all was to hear Del Monaco once again. What happened could have happened only in the U.S., where people 1) form committees, 2) believe that dreams come true. Irene went to Milan on funds donated...