Word: vincenzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Controller Archie L. Monroe told the Senators that during the eight-year period, his company approved contributions totaling $27 million by Esso Italiana, mainly to Italian political parties. Monroe said that Exxon called a halt to the payments in 1971 when it discovered that the subsidiary's president, Vincenzo Cazzaniga, since dismissed, had spent an additional $19 million that had not been authorized. Included was a voucher for $86,000 supposedly paid to the Italian Communist Party, which made sweeping gains in regional elections last month partly by boasting that its hands were "clean" of foreign oil money...
...problem is not the size of the oil contributions-corporate contributions are still legal and a major source of political parties' funds-but rather the favors the oilmen allegedly got for them. Whether the companies can clear themselves depends largely on the eventual testimony of Industrialist Vincenzo Cazzaniga, who until two years ago headed both Unione Petrolifera and Exxon's local subsidiary Esso Italiana. A warrant for his arrest has been issued, but he is now on a business trip abroad. Cazzaniga is specifically charged with having distributed about $2 million to politicians in 1972 to make sure...
...Sills herself. Last week she did, in a way that should silence doubters and suggest to everyone else that she will go on singing for at least another ten years. At the New York City Opera, Sills took aim at one of the toughest operas in all bel canto, Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani. When she was done, Bellini was on his knees, the capacity audience at the New York State Theater on its feet for a long ovation. In post-World War II productions of Puritani, only Maria Callas has achieved anything to equal Sills' limpid coloration...
Another arrested suspect was Vincenzo Mammoliti, 43, an olive-oil dealer from the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, who reportedly spent 22 years in the U.S. and is said to be a member of a Mafia-like family of Calabrian criminals. His brother, Saverio Mammoliti, an escaped convict with a criminal record that includes armed robbery, vanished before the police sprang their trap. Of the eight men arrested, at least three were found with some of the marked ransom money. But police so far have refused to divulge how much of the ransom has been recovered...
...rural roads, the chassis had to be redesigned to ride 1½ inches higher off the ground than the 124. To survive bitter Soviet winters, the car had to start unfailingly at -13° F. "To do all this in the time allowed, we had to take risks," recalls Vincenzo Buffa, Fiat vice-director-general. "We started building before we knew what machines would be needed" to construct the modified...