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Security men almost outnumbered the guests at the Guy de Rothschild chateau outside Paris-and with good reason. A dazzle of diamonds winked and twinkled in all directions, from hair, hands, necks and bosoms. The Duchess of Windsor's were canary. Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green. But Elizabeth Taylor outshone everyone at the costume ball with the 69.4-carat, million-dollar "Burton Diamond" at her throat, and her black hair caught up in a net studded with 1,000 small diamonds and edged with 25 larger ones. Perhaps to relieve the monotony...
...Possible. A man of rigid habits, "Gianni" Bucher had left his house in a residential section of Rio at precisely 8:45 a.m., and followed precisely the same route he always took for the 15-minute trip downtown to the Swiss embassy. As his big Buick cruised down a busy street, half-a-dozen gunmen in two cars forced it to a screeching halt. They mortally wounded Bucher's Brazilian bodyguard when he appeared to be reaching for a pistol, then pushed the ambassador into a waiting car and roared off. The last thing the chauffeur heard Bucher...
Died. Giovacchino Forzano, 86, Italian playwright and librettist noted for his work with Puccini; in Rome. Forzano won plaudits for his librettos for Puccini's one-act Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, and contributed librettos for such other composers as Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Lehar. Italians also remember him as the dramatist who nursed Mussolini's passion to write, thrice co-authoring plays with H Duce...
...Since Fiat's sales are much greater than Michelin's ($2.3 billion compared with $1.1 billion last year), many French observers expect that the Italian company will ultimately dominate Citroen, which lost money last year on sales of $1.4 billion. The deal will strengthen the position of Gianni...
Italy's giant manufacturer of little cars, Fiat, has always demonstrated an ability to adapt to prevailing political and economic philosophies. Fiat's progressive president, Gianni Agnelli, supported Italy's "opening to the left," which brought Socialists into government, and he maintains an open dialogue with trade unions, including those dominated by Communists. Last week he visited Russia for a first look at the $800 million auto plant that his company is building for the Soviets. Yet back home in Turin, Fiat faces a labor crisis, fired in no small part by the activities of several hundred...