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...Ripe for the Venture. The question was, what fund? Lolli's answer was to interest IBEC in helping form a new Italian fund. Later the Rothschilds, with whom Lolli had been involved in forming a British merchant bank, offered their backing, and 3-R was born. The chairman of the fund will be Evelyn de Rothschild, 38. the polo-playing contender for leadership of the British house of Rothschild...
Italy seems ripe for the venture. Poor investment opportunities and the country's continuing political uncertainty have caused a soaring sellers' market in foreign mutual funds. The rush to buy was so great last year that the Bank of Italy stopped all sales except those of foreign funds that agreed to put half their assets into Italian stocks. With its highly placed board of directors and its research talent, 3-R should have little trouble finding investments in Italy. If they succeed there, the two first families of international finance might well look elsewhere for joint ventures...
...least government that could have been provided rather than the most. Moreover, no one expects it to last much longer than the regional elections scheduled for late May. The odds are that at least one party in the coalition will conclude from these elections that the conditions are ripe for it to seize center stage. Then it will walk out of Italy's 28th postwar government, and begin agitating self-servingly for a 29th...
...prodded the asbestos industry to start safeguarding its workers, who now have seven times more lung cancer than the general working population. He created a national surveillance network to learn about other dangers to human health. Cheered by the concern over the environment, he predicts: "The time is ripe for our national policy to recognize that there is something in greater need of protection than natural resources, and that is human resources...
There are similarities, to be sure. Color was the mainspring for both artists, and both treated objects as elements in a pattern. But there are also profound differences. Where Matisse's colors are voluptuous, ripe, filled with the warmth of the Mediterranean, Avery's are tart, eccentric, northern. "Matisse was a hedonist," Sally observes. "Milton was a puritanical man of very simple tastes." His uniquely charming celebration of the world around him, with its dry mirth and insistent individuality, is the legacy of an artist who was in every sense strictly...