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Labor unrest has become endemic in Italy. Last week's strikers included tens of thousands of workers in Milan, 50,000 civil servants and some cinema actors and customs inspectors. Even the employees of the Treasury Ministry walked out for two days, creating confusion at the meetings of the Group of Ten and leaving only one Xerox machine in operation for all delegations...
...crazy hicks. That fellow Dillinger-why, he had about a quarter in his pocket when he got knocked off." When the Kefauver subcommittee cracked down on racketeers, Adonis was convicted in 1951 for gambling, served two years, then was convicted for perjury and chose deportation. He lived in Milan until four months ago, when an Italian court declared him "dangerous" and banished him to the tiny Adriatic village of Serra de' Conti...
Jetting to Hell. When Paganini died in 1840, many of these compositions -including the third violin concerto -were tucked away in a bank vault in Milan under the care of the violinist's heirs. Other violinists have been trying to get at them ever since. By last year, all the concertos except the third had been released. It was still held by the Paganini family. Last Christmas, Philips Records, aided by Violinist Henryk Szeryng, finally obtained it after ten years of delicate negotiations...
Once, when he was Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini...
...export-import financing is flagging. Italy is in the deepest trouble. Plagued by strikes and absenteeism, industrial production is running 3% lower than last year, while prices are 5% higher. Fiat, the automaker, has placed 8,000 workers on a short week; tiremaking Pirelli is offering workers in the Milan area cash gifts to quit. Zanussi, Italy's biggest electric-appliance manufacturer, plans to lay off 9,420 by year's end. Refrigerator producers reckon that the price of one of their popular models in the U.S. will rise from $89 to $109. The Italian bourse...