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...belief is as old as the Tuscan hills...
...Navy destroyers were wired with simulated explosives, set to go off in a chain reaction. By mistake a jittery technician fired them before the cameras were ready to role. It took 35 people to rig them up again. A similar delay occurred during filming at Aaron Jastrow's Tuscan villa, which had been chosen because of its faded golden hues, the result of years of weathering. The owner of the villa was so proud to have her house on TV, however, that before the production crew arrived she had it painted a bright, Day-Glo yellow. The first...
...anyone seemed capable of resolving the crisis, it was Fanfani. Four times Prime Minister in the 1950s and early '60s, the Tuscany-born Fanfani was known both as il Padrino (the Godfather) and, because of his ability to bounce back from political adversity, the Tuscan Pony. Despite his antiCommunist, anti-abortion stands, he gained a reputation as a pragmatist, forming the country's first left-of-center coalition with the Socialists in 1962. His ability to compromise was quickly put to use last week to mollify the present-day Socialists under Bettino Craxi...
While Calvi was being prosecuted for the illegal export of capital, police raided the sumptuous Arezzo villa of Licio Gelli, a Tuscan-born businessman with financial and right-wing political links to South America who served as Grand Master of a Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Police found Calvi's name, along with those of other prominent Italian and South American politicians, military officers and businessmen (including Sindona), on the secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through...
...that is exactly what has now been designed. The visitors' entrance will look like a small white Palladian garden pavilion with floor-to-ceiling French windows between Tuscan columns. The doors and windows will be decorated with delicate grille work. It will be built into a heavily planted earth berm so that it is visible only from the street. The building is scheduled for completion next year, and the entire project could cost about $1 million...