Word: turin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turin's Valentino Exhibition Palace was ablaze with chrome and bright-painted metal. On view at Italy's oldest and biggest auto show were the pride and joy of the world's automakers: 64 models from twelve nations, including General Motors' opulent Cadillac, Czechoslovakia's tanklike Tatra, Britain's 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin racer. But the stars of the show were not the big, the swift or the beautiful. They were the small, neatly styled economy cars that spark the biggest boom Europe's automakers have ever known. This year the industry will...
...death throes; $1,600 for a story on the embalming process. (Il Giorno Editorialist Gaetano Baldacci charged that Galeazzi-Lisi, employing an "aromatic spirits" technique which he claimed had been used on the body of Christ, wretchedly botched the job.) Two Italian dailies, Rome's Il Tempo and Turin's La Stampa, bought Galeazzi-Lisi's second entree for a joint bid of $3,200. Conservative, pro-Catholic Il Tempo printed it, after deleting "certain passages which appeared to us too crude...
...took the looting of all Europe by Napoleon's armies to surpass such Bourbon largesse. "We will now have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples," Napoleon boasted. The booty kept flowing in, including such masterpieces as Veronese's Marriage at Cana, largest canvas (22 ft. by 32 ft.) in the Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon...
...socialist bureaucrats, Japanese financial shoguns and silk-clad Burmese magnates. From London came financiers whose firms had bankrolled the Industrial Revolution; from Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany from Washington, Banker G. D. Birla from India. Biggest delegation was a 202-man phalanx of U.S. executives spanning the economy from Ritz Crackers to R.C.A...
...told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants and hard collars. They will not prevail...