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...Passive. Biagio Morelli, 39, a soft-spoken Parma city employee, went even further. He organized Italy's first real consumer boycott. Soon the cramped office of his all-volunteer Confederation of Consumers was filled with irate housewives eager to demonstrate or to sign petitions calling for an investigation. Says Morelli, who charges that the wholesalers made $40 million profit on the operation: "People always said the Italian consumer was too passive and uninformed to be organized. Yet look at the effect...
...keep the campaign from becoming another Titanic, senior Ford advisers recently held an emergency summit conference. Among those attending were Republican Heavyweights Melvin Laird, Dean Burch and Bryce Harlow as well as some G.O.P. congressional leaders and two savvy fund raisers, Detroit Industrialist Max Fisher and California Businessman Leon Parma...
King Michael of Rumania, 55, an account executive for a U.S. brokerage firm. He lives outside Geneva with his wife, the former Anne of Bourbon-Parma, their five daughters and his prize possession, a World War II Jeep...
Modeled partly after Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, the novel was set in 18th century Italy. But Mrs. Wharton soon turned to her true subject, the world of the American rich and the clash between new and old money. On her native ground she has never been matched, and no other American has ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging...
...close to Nelson Rockefeller. In the center are Bryce Harlow, an old White House hand (now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble) who was an adviser to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon; former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longtime congressional ally of Ford's; and another old friend, Leon Parma, group executive for Teledyne, Inc. in San Diego, who served as the top staffer on the G.O.P. congressional campaign committee for twelve years...