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Manhattan court reporters saw a familiar face: Gambler Frank Costello, returned from Milan, Mich., where he is serving an 18-month stretch for contempt of Congress, to face a federal charge of evading $73,000 in income taxes. From Costello, prison-pale and some 30 Ibs. lighter, the reporters heard a familiar croak: "Not guilty...
...Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie refectory last week, a crotchety oldster scraped with a surgeon's knife at one of the world's greatest paintings and muttered in annoyance as the tourists clustered around. To the spectators, his knife-wielding seemed the final indignity to the remains of Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper, sorely damaged by 400 years of weather and bungling restorers. Professor Mauro Pelliccioli, 65, knows better. Next month Italy's No. 1 art restorer will finish up his work on the 15th century masterpiece, and one government official...
Italy last week put into daily service between Milan, Rome and Naples the most modern train in Europe. Known as the ETR 300, it gives passengers the thrill of "riding with the engineer" at 60 m.p.h. in a radically different locomotive that is also an observation car. The passengers actually ride ahead of the engineer; he runs the electric train from a dome behind them...
...keep the going smooth and silent, the tram has 240 rubber shock absorbers that cut jarring to a minimum, provide a ride almost completely free of vibration. Cost of a Milan-to-Naples oneway ticket: about $21.40-$3.50 more than other fast trains...
...Hoosier-born Princeton man, Barbe conducted at Milan's La Scala when he was 19; after he came home from World War II he conducted the Portland (Ore.) Symphony for three years. Today 44-year-old Barbe broadcasts his programs from a $40,000 studio built into his Houston home. Because he feels that "our audience is at least as intelligent as we are," he treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel...