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...Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat's Cinzano vermouth, shops at a Fiat drugstore, leaves for Milan over the Fiat-controlled autostrada (toll road...
...price of illegitimacy can be high and Cardano's enemies made him pay it. For years they denied him membership in the College of Physicians in Milan, and thus the right to practice medicine in his home town. Cardano moved to a village near Padua for a while, but could not support his family, either as a country doctor or by gambling. Back in Milan, however, he began to lecture, write and debate with such skill and vehemence that he won the right to practice, finally rose to such eminence that kings and archbishops solicited his services...
...effort until the last. Clemente Cardinal Micara, second-ranking member of the College of Cardinals and pastoral leader of Rome's 500 churches, exhorted his people: "Vote well, vote as Catholics, vote as Romans." In an address at the annual dinner of the American Chamber of Commerce in Milan, newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce made sure that every Italian voter understood where the U.S., which has given Italy $3 billion in aid since war's end, takes its stand. After speaking of past U.S. help to Italy, the ambassador added: "But if-I am required...
...spread over two four-hour performances), its 40 individual roles and choruses of several hundred, all proved too discouraging. But last week the Italian city of Florence put on a digested, four-hour version as the high spot of its May music festival, and as a triumphant coup over Milan's lordly La Scala...
...busy. The festival commissioned ten sets, five of them elaborate"; and an Italian translation. Rodzinski tricked up musical interludes to connect a series of five short scenes in Act I. The countryside was scoured for singers willing to tackle an unfamiliar score. Total cost: close to $400,000. When Milan's La Scala (and the Soviet Embassy) protested, the Florentines retorted that Russia does not adhere to the International Copyright Convention-and kept on working...