Word: piero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wealthiest industrialist, they are so proud of the industrial glories of their fast-growing city that some of them talk facetiously of a "republic of Milan." An Italian magazine recently suggested that the republic already had its first ambassador to the U.S. He is wiry, sharp-faced Piero Bassetti, who, at 34, not only runs his family's sizable, 140-year-old textile business, but also is one of Italy's most active and controversial politicians. As a member of Milan's city council and the city assessor, Bassetti is a chief mover behind a massive redevelopment...
...Piero Bassetti approached the Manhattan investment firm of Dillon, Read for a $20 million loan to start off the project, aware that a commitment won from it would impress financiers around the world. After two months of investigating the Milanese economy, Dillon, Read approved the loan at a 1% lower interest rate than Milan could have got in Italy. "They'll soon be standing in line to lend us money," crowed the triumphant Bassetti-and he was right. Last week the line was growing, with British and Swiss bankers at its head...
...Vatican began to reveal the truth of the Pope's illness: he had "gastric heteroplasia"-a tumor, perhaps cancerous (although only surgery could tell), that caused hemorrhages and anemia. Unable to hold down food, the Pope was being fed intravenously. One of Italy's best anesthesiologists, Dr. Piero Mazzoni, moved into the Vatican on 24-hour watch to administer transfusions, coagulants and morphine injections-the only treatments, since surgeons had decided against an operation or radiation treatments...
...fact someone always ruins Vittoria's little pleasures. Her larger desires are never even expressed; and no wonder, for which of the shallow and self-centered people she knows could she communicate them to? She has not put her feelings into words. When Piero questions her--not because he is interested in what she might say, but to keep the conversation going--she can only answer, again and again, "I don't know...
...Avventura, also, Claudia said that she did not know what was troubling her, but soon she realized that she was falling in love with Giorgio. Vittoria, however, certainly does not love Piero, although she does find him attractive. She tries to avoid all physical and emotional contact with him, and the love-making they do engage in finally is brief and unsatisfactory. Vittoria is not as unable to communicate as she is unwilling, for she fears the abvious solution to her problem: solitude...