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Fanfani himself approved. He wanted to collapse his Cabinet in order to rebuild it on a new power base. He expects to continue his alliance with the Social Democrats and Republicans, but wants to get rid of the free-enterprising Liberals. In their place, he wants to work with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists (87 seats), thereby placing Italy within sight of the long-discussed apertura a sinistra (opening to the left). The maneuver may seem hazardous, but Fanfani has his reasons...
...handsome Count Carlo Faina, chairman of the giant Montecatini chemical complex. Despite an aristocratic heritage-he holds a longstanding title granted by Pope Pius IX and confirmed by the Italian royal family-Faina joined Montecatini 35 years ago as one of 360 applicants answering a want ad. Assigned to rebuild the chemical complex after the war, he defied stockholder opposition by multiplying the outstanding shares in order to obtain new capital. Now, with sales of $600 million a year, Montecatini slugs it out internationally with the likes of Du Pont and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries...
...Europe was well on the recovery road, except for West Germany. Question was, how to rebuild Germany into NATO in a fashion acceptable to France, thrice attacked by German armies in the last hundred years? It was Jean Monnet, then directing France's postwar economic recovery, who found the answer: to pool the coal and steel resources of France and Germany-the Ruhr, the Saar, Lorraine, over which so many Franco-German conflicts had erupted-under a supranational authority...
...girl, breathing hard and gliding close to the terrified child. Before anything worse can happen she starts to cry. He stares, staggers, vomits. At the trial, he declares his guilt and makes no defense. In prison, he comes to understand his compulsions. But now, as he struggles to rebuild his life, he wonders dreadfully if the stress of daily life might not drive him to do the same terrible thing again. "You can't be sure," the psychiatrist bleakly informs him. "Everybody has these impulses. But healthy people learn to live with them and control them. I think...
...some time," she reported, "the School of Education has been considering whether to rebuild on its present site or move to a new location. The purchase of Longfellow Hall, along with the acquisition of additional land across Appian Way, gives them at last a respectable home...