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...FESTIVAL. "The Life and Times of John Huston, Esquire" portrays Huston directing his recent film Reflections in a Golden Eye, acting with David Niven in 1967's Casino Royale, directing his first opera at Milan's La Scala Opera House, and relaxing in his Irish castle...
...partners split up two years later when Gaggia's limited-production philosophy clashed with Valente's go-for-broke ideas. Gaggia went on to establish his own company, which has run a poor second to Valente's Faema. Last week at the Faema annual meeting in Milan, Valente proudly reported to shareholders (mostly family) that sales were $27.9 million in 1967 (up $6,500,000 from 1966). Faema coffee is now brewed in 54 countries; besides his Milan plant, Valente now has manufacturing operations in Barcelona, Paris, Frankfurt and Zurich...
...World Bank finally selected the contractor who will build the giant Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in remote West Pakistan. Winner of the job, with a bid of $623 million for the eight-year project, is a consortium of French and Italian companies led by Impregilo of Milan...
...Lilly Pulitzer is offering a new collection of "Men's Stuff" that includes flamboyantly printed "P.J.s" (Pulitzer Jeans) and Cuban-style quayabera shirts, worn with the squared-off tails outside. Valentino, who is Jackie Kennedy's favorite Rome designer, last month moved into men's clothing. Milan's expatriate American designer, Ken Scott, is showing lounging pajamas and tunic tops for men in clinging jersey. "For my clothes," Scott admits, "a man needs a lot of guts...
Died. Tullio Serafin, 89, Italian conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1924 to 1934; of a heart attack; in Rome. For half a century Serafin conducted at Milan's La Scala, the Met, London's Covent Garden, and Paris' Opéra. A great interpreter of Verdi and Puccini, he also championed such U.S. composers as Deems Taylor and Louis Gruenberg...