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...didn't take long for me to realize that Italy was different. I had landed an internship with Coca-Cola in Milan and on my first day I showed up at the office bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, eager for a challenging summer work experience...
...largely oblivious to the match's importance prior to that afternoon. Not that it was difficult to keep abreast of what was happening. During the playing of the Brazil game the city of Milan--like cities all over Italy--shut down. Traffic came to a halt, workers stopped working, and the nation's eyes and cars stayed glued to T.V. sets and radios...
...over Italy the streets were enveloped by revelry. From my vantage point in Milan I could see jubilant fans streaming into the streets everywhere. Italy's tricolor flag was conspicuous. Friends would spot each other from across the street, run ever to each other and embrace, crying that this was the greatest thing ever to have happened to them, and to Italy...
People embraced everyone. There was more than just dancing in the streets--in Milan many danced on the rooftops of cars. Throughout the celebration thousands shouted cheers in unison. "I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA!" they shouted over and over again. Or for the more vulgarly minded: "Brasilia! Brasilia! Vaffanculo...
Today General Dozier is stationed at the U.S. Army base in Fort Knox, Ky. Marcello Campione, who clashed with the head of SISMI, has been dispatched to the Italian embassy in far-off Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Franchino Restelli has been transferred from his Milan prison to a more hospitable jail in Parma. Dominic Lombino is back in New York, reportedly waiting for the Justice Department to approve the residency papers requested by the CIA. In Italy, trouble is brewing within SISMI about the sum of money, which turned out to be $500,000 that was promised to Lombino...