Word: petrella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulp: Dashiell Hammett's Woman in the Dark (Knopf; 96 pages; $15.95), overpriced and oversold as a "novel," but compelling on its terms as a sketchbook romance between two losers who share a fierce sense of their own integrity. Other notable reprints include Michael Gilbert's Young Petrella (Harper & Row; 222 pages; $15.95), a collection of magazine stories from the 1950s and '60s that display his trademark Scotland Yard detective with a deadpan precision of mood worthy of Simenon, and A Double Life (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $17.95), short gothic chillers by Louisa May Alcott...
Later, everyone seemed to get a piece of the action. Mayer--who assisted with the first goal--scored the second tally of the contest, also her second for the season Deb Fields and Inga Latson both put in penalty shots, and two freshmen Kathy Cox Margaret Petrella got their first Crimson tallies...
...suspected terrorists, Stefano Petrella and Ennio di Rocco, were arrested near Rome's famed Spanish Steps. Those arrests led to raids on three Rome apartments, where police turned up Brigades documents and weapons and ten more Red Brigades members, including Giovanni Senzani, a former criminologist who became leader of the Brigades' Rome column. Less than two weeks later, after a bank robbery in Siena, police arrested two members of an ultramilitant Red Brigades splinter group called Prima Linea, or Front Line. Those arrests in turn led to the discovery of a secret Rome hideout, which, remarkably, was used...
...Verona last Wednesday seems to have yielded the final link to Dozier's whereabouts. Among those arrested in the raid was Paolo Galati, 22, brother of Michele Galati, who is currently in prison for terrorist acts. Sources said Galati's name had been mentioned by Stefano Petrella after that brigatista's arrest in Rome. Police flew Petrella to Padua to confront Paolo Galati. Somehow, that meeting led police to the apartment on Via Pindemonte. As early as Tuesday, the U.S. embassy was informed that some sort of action to rescue Dozier was imminent...
...very conservative place," says Joseph Engelberger, the ebullient president of Unimation. Top executives turn for advice to their technical managers, and these are naturally cautious. "Plant supervisors get worried because they don't understand robots," says Neale Clapp, a robotics expert for the management consultant firm of Block Petrella Associates in Plainfield, N.J. "They feel their authority is undermined." G.E., for one, commissioned a psychologist to study the effect of the introduction of robots on workers, and it found the greatest anxiety among foremen. Says James Clark, operations manager of the Westinghouse Elevator Co.: "The fear is: 'What...