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...reached Elson, he had just returned from a two-week swing through five Western European countries. As the World editor does periodically, he visited TIME correspondents and met with leaders of European politics, business, the church and the press. He talked with, among many others, Italy's Prince Nicolo Pignatelli, the oilman who is president of Gulf Italiana; Spain's Vincente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón; France's Jean-François Revel, author and columnist for the weekly L'Express; and Britain's Roy Hattersley, Minister for European Affairs. "The changes in leadership...
...Nicolo Paganini could. According to 19th century writers, Paganini was the greatest violinist who ever lived. His fingers were like steel snakes, his bow arm a saber that sawed through unheard-of technical difficulties. During one performance, swore a Viennese listener, old Lucifer himself appeared beside Paganini, guiding his fingers. His lustrous tone sounded uncannily like the human voice-and no wonder, declared some darkly, for Paganini made his own strings out of human intestines...
...could be certain whether he was safer indoors or outside. At the Midnight Mission along downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, Nicolo Difilipantonio, 70, fled into the street-and was killed by chunks of roofing that fell from the aged building. The mission's 200 other occupants were unhurt; they remained inside. In Sylmar, near the quake's epicenter in the San Gabriel Mountains, Linda Daniheux, 25, remained in bed -and died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton...
Finley's Friend. Fronting for the takeover were two Cleveland Teamster organizers, Nick Nardi and Nick Francis. They operated under the aegis of Los Angeles Cosa Nostra Chief Nicolo Licata, now serving a jail sentence for contempt, and Frank Milano. Milano's son, Pete, worked behind the scenes to speed along the organizing effort. The two Nicks obtained 15 signatures from interested dealers and then applied for a charter to create Local 711 of the International Office and Professional Employees Union (O.P.E.U...
...cost control"), but they switch on their local dialects to good advantage when dealing with customers, competitors or labor leaders. Their mere presence helps to blunt occasional arguments from rivals that the government should not give contracts to U.S.-owned firms. Says Gulf Oil's Italian Chief, Prince Nicolo Pignatelli: "If you want to shoot a lion, you had better take along somebody who understands lions. Otherwise, the lion...