Word: olivetti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other fields, Olivetti's business machines are known the world over. Pirelli exports tires to more than 100 countries, and has become the Continent's biggest tire company. In publishing, Milan's Fabbri Brothers created a major business by capitalizing on Italy's rising educational levels and its fascination with installment-plan buying. They brought out high-quality serializations of The Divine Comedy, the Bible and other works, now sell more than 1,000,000 copies a week on Italian newsstands. Italian designers are famed for what they do with silks and leather, and their fashions...
...Renaissance mode of dress, Paul seldom wears anything more elaborate than a simple white cassock. On busy days he may meet aides with his collar open; sometimes, with cassock doffed, he is in shirtsleeves. Like Pius XII, he often pecks out short memos and private letters on a battered Olivetti portable...
Airily Mysterious. Now, thanks to new scientific techniques that allow the murals to be removed, the U.S. public will be able to see with its own eyes a bountiful portion of the quattrocento's springtime splendor. With $150,000 from Italy's Olivetti and the approval of the Italian government and Rome's Pontifical Commission on Sacred Art, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum this week puts on view 46 frescoes from walls in Tuscany. Many were removed from their original locations and mounted on separate panels during the past two years because of severe damage resulting from...
...Oakland, Calif., New Haven-based Kevin Roche has designed a three-tier museum, with the roof of each tier serving as a broad, verdant terrace. Philadelphia's innovative Louis Kahn, whom all architects watch with what amounts to fascination, has such projects under way as a factory for Olivetti and an art museum in Fort Worth. Across the U.S., there is a wide range of powerfully self-confident and optimistic buildings...
Pirelli and Olivetti and a proud roster of other Italian manufacturers. He collects substantial retainers or commissions on sales from his customers and spends seven months of each year looking after their interests in Moscow. The rest of the time he lives in Turin with his wife, the former Nina Ivanovna Firsova, a onetime Intourist interpreter, and their two children...