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Paris celebrates the Venetian titan...
...seems to be the rule of the day -- clearer is better. Manufacturers of all sorts of products are convinced that consumers equate transparent with natural and healthy. Result: products like clear dishwashing liquid and clear roll-on deodorant. Soft-drink titan Coca-Cola has invented a colorless version of its classic diet soda Tab, while rival Pepsico has struck back with "Crystal" equivalents of regular and Diet Pepsi, as sweet as ever but clear as water...
...TITAN FELLED...
Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal brought down an industrial titan when Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of Olivetti, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for complicity in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank. He promises an appeal...
...LAST BUSINESS titan -- devoid of electoral experience but rich in patriotic fervor -- to try to bankroll his way into the White House as a high- minded alternative to an unpopular President and the usual band of two- faced out-of-power politicians. In the Frank Capra classic, Tracy falls under the thumb of a cabal of back-room bosses before reclaiming his virtue in a dramatic radio address, in which he confesses, "I sold out my ideals to a gang of corrupt politicians...