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That the attack was launched by his cousin Roberto, 52, and uncle Aldo, 80, the previous chairman, comes as no surprise in a family fraught with feuds. Their suit alleges that Maurizio, 36, fraudulently obtained his late father Rodolfo's 50% interest in the company by arranging to have Rodolfo's signature forged on a shares document soon after the father died in May 1983. Maurizio succeeded Aldo as chairman last year and has spurred an internal reorganization of the company...
Answer to this week's trivia question: the last father-son combination happened, coincidentally, at Columbia, where Coach Aldo T. Donelli coached his son, Richard...
Businessmen fear that the strong dollar will force the U.S. to close its markets to foreign products. Says Aldo Palmeri, managing director of Italy's Benetton Textile group: "Our overseas exports are increasing by 100% a year, but before long American industry will be demanding restrictive measures against imports." Concurs Switzerland's Fritz Leutwiler, former president of the Bank for International Settlements: "We should be very concerned about the high dollar pushing protectionism in the United States...
...Angeles Times confirmed that a human heart was available at the UCLA medical school located only 50 miles from Loma Linda. In addition, other procedures, namely the so-called Norwood operation--which attempts, by surgery, to make the defective heart function normally--used extensively by Dr. Aldo R. Castenada of the Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital, might have been employed with more success...
...mess evidently began in 1968, when Aldo Bonassoli, a telephone-company electrician in Ventimiglia, Italy, convinced Count Alain de Villegas, a wealthy private investor, that he could develop a technique for discovering oil from the air. A French intelligence agent learned of the project, and the Giscard government decided that it might be useful for detecting submarines. Villegas signed the first of a number of contracts with Elf-Aquitaine, and payments were made into secret Swiss bank accounts...