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Even before the strike started in Italy's two biggest exchanges, Milan and Turin, it was evident that the new law might do more harm than good. Turnover on the Milan exchange, fifth most important in the world (after New York, London, Paris, Zürich), had shrunk from last year's daily average of 3,000,000 shares to 300,000 before the strike. Although Italian industry is humming at record pitch, the value of stocks listed on the Milan board has been sliced one-third (to 2 trillion lire) since the tax measure was passed...
...University of Milan's "European Conference on the Esthetics of Television," delegates from Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, debated for days about TV ground rules, agreed on nothing but a definition of television's role: "To distract, inform and instruct...
Combination (rows at 6 p.m. on Friday afternoon)--Stroke, Nick Platt; seven, Bill Henry; six, Milan Heath; five, Jack Farlow; four, Harry Fitzgibbons; three, Jim Meade; two, Toby Baker; bow, Robert Dole; cox, Joseph Polofsky...
...because they always claim to be playing a Stradivarius." In Italy alone there are some 120 liutai. amateur and pro, who turn out from three to six instruments a year and sell them for as much as $600 each.* Among the best known are the four Bisiach brothers of Milan and Flo ence, Rome's Politi family, Milan's Luigi Ornati and Ferdinando Garimberti...
...artists as Holbein, Dtirer. Leonardo da Vinci and Cellini for helmet designs and devices that were etched, gilded, embossed and damascened on the steel plate. The best Florentine painters of the day were called on to decorate ceremonial shields and banners. So dazzling were the results that one of Milan's great armorers, Tomaso Missaglia, was not only knighted but exempted from all taxes as well. Such splendid casques as Milan's other great armorer, Philip de Negroli, made for France's Francis I, with tendrils, flowers and cupids sculptured in cold steel, earned him the title...