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...learning to be a part of soci...societ...
...smoothly into the Middle East with an impressive mixture of direct exports and joint-venture projects. The Italians are third; they have built a reputation for handling vast projects more cheaply than either the French or the British, and with an outstanding technical flak. For example, in Bahrain, the Società Italiana Resine of Milan is completing a $12 million desalination plant that it says will be the largest in the world. During March the company and the Cairo daily Al Ahram jointly sponsored a conference on desalination that brought together representatives of nine Arab countries, Britain, France, West Germany...
...Vatican sold Sindona the bulk of its 15% interest in Italy's largest real estate firm, Società Generale Immobiliare (assets: $175 million), which has not only dotted postwar Italian cities with tower apartments but erected similar projects in Montreal, Mexico City and Washington, D.C., including the capital's most In address, Watergate. When word of the sale leaked out, jitters swept the Milan stock market; brokers feared that a liquidation of Vatican securities holdings might depress stock prices generally. Italian newspapers speculated that the Vatican was pulling its money out of Italy to avoid paying a dividend...
...sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members of L'Onorata Società (the Honored Society), Calabria's branch of the Mafia...
...sisters. The ladies must have minded their singing master to negotiate the runs and trills that ornament this gay, witty music about four bored young damsels desultorily playing cards and wishing that both their hands and their suitors were more exciting. The soloists and orchestra of the Societàa Cameristica di Lugano have just the right light touch for this delightful record...