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...police found 60 kilos (132 Ibs.) of heroin on his farm. Extradited to Italy, Buscetta spent eight years in various jails, living well and even giving away his daughter in a marriage held within the prison's walls. He did not, however, serve out his sentence. Transferred to Turin in 1976, Buscetta behaved so well that an apparently sympathetic judge allowed him to go out by day to work at his old family trade of cutting glass. One night in 1980 he failed to return from his glass-cutting activities. Instead, he went back to Brazil...
...Sottsass, 66, such contradictions are nothing new. Following his Turin university days, the Austrian-born designer witnessed the transition of Italian architecture from fascist monument to utilitarian modern. He became an acclaimed leader of the spare and sensuous new style in the 1960s, creating innovative and clean-lined office furniture and machinery for Olivetti, a task he still performs. But influenced by the Pop painting of Roy Lichtenstein, rock music and Indian mysticism, he surprised colleagues with Olivetti's plastic Valentine portable typewriter. He later did a table and stools called Mickey Mouse, and designed a disco outside Beirut...
...five-year Cadillac contract calls for Pininfarina to design and assemble 8,000 Callisto bodies a year at his factory outside Turin. The $600 million agreement, which will more than double the Pininfarina firm's annual sales (1983: $80.3 million), will create some unusual logistical problems. After completion, the bodies will be shipped 4,500 miles to Detroit, where they will be married to the chassis. Sea voyages were deemed too dangerous for the handcrafted metalwork and delicate lacquer finish, so the bodies will be flown to the U.S. by jumbo jet. Pininfarina will send a planeload every other...
Vitale's family-owned concern, head quartered in a two-story stucco factory in Turin, was founded in 1916 as a manufacturer of men's socks. His parents fled to Switzerland in 1943 to escape Fascist antiSemitism, but returned to Turin after World War II to rebuild their shattered plant. When Vitale left school to join the company full time in the late 1960s, he immediately set out to diversify it. "In this world," he says, "it's very important to understand things 15 minutes before somebody else...
...Vitale started his Kappa athletic-wear line of products and began sponsoring Juventus, Turin's internationally known professional soccer team. It was the first Italian soccer team to have a commercial sponsor. The Kappa name became so widely known through the Turin team that Vitale was soon able to sell licenses to produce the clothing outside Italy. The athletic events he sponsors now include marathons in London, Paris and Athens, as well as in New York City. In addition, such track stars as Edwin Moses and Sydney Maree run in Kappa clothing and appear in the firm...