Word: mussolini
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...began on a chill, grey afternoon 20 years ago. The site was a laboratory in a squash court beneath the stands of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field Stadium. Gathered there was a team of scientists and engineers headed by Enrico Fermi, a refugee from Mussolini's Italy. They had finished building history's first nuclear reactor. Now they were using it to produce the first controlled nuclear reaction...
...story begins in September 1943, one of the less humorous months in Italian history. On Sept. 3, the Allies cross from Sicily; on Sept. 8, the Badoglio government surrenders; on Sept. 10, the Germans start to take over; on Sept. 12, Mussolini escapes and sets up as a German puppet. Like most of his countrymen Lieut. Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi) gets dizzy on the seesaw of events...
...Fight!" cries Mussolini. "Surrender!' says Badoglio. The lieutenant wants to do his duty, but what is his duty? Which is his lawful commander-in-chief ? Who are his enemies-the Allies, who are not shooting at him, or the Germans, who are? Unable to decide, the lieutenant and his men decide to go home, and as they go the camera follows them through painful alternations of laughter and slaughter...
...companies they run are, variously, monuments of socialist tradition, nationalist pride or the turbulence of the Depression and World War II. In France, state ownership of industry is estimated to be 20% or more. One lingering result of Mussolini's corporate state is that modern Italian businessmen must operate in an economy where more than one-third of business is controlled by the government. In Germany, Hitler's Third Reich started Volkswagen to produce his "people's car," but it made war vehicles instead and is still 40% state-owned. Governments control every major European airline-because...
Considering Boldrini's age, Italians are already speculating on his successor. The morning line favors Eugenio Cefis, 42, who moved up to Boldrini's vice presidency last week. Cefis (pronounced Cheh-feece) met Mattei in the anti-Nazi resistance after the collapse of Mussolini and stayed on to help Mattei negotiate many of E.N.I.'s oil prospecting deals...