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...unmoved. They mostly agree that overcapacity will result if all present expansion plans are carried out, and they frankly admit that within the next few years they expect a shake-out similar to the one that rocked the U.S. auto industry in the 1920s. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, 40: "There are about 40 automobile manufacturers in Europe today; 20 of them will probably have disappeared by 1970." But Agnelli, along with most of his competitors, believes that it is the other fellow who will get hurt...
Following right along behind No. 1 Jackie and her sister, the Princess, were Close Friends Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (husband: oil millionaire), Mrs. Loel Guinness (husband: international financier), Mrs. Gianni Agnelli (husband: Fiat auto heir), and Mrs. Hervé Alphand (husband: France's Ambassador to the U.S.). All of the six were present at a New Year's Eve party given by Mrs. Wrightsman in her 40-room Palm Beach winter place. The ladies, who among them spend about a quarter of a million dollars a year getting dressed, looked...
...very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many...
...Alexander (who thinks nothing of splitting a sentence between French and English). There are casually elegant buffet lunches and small dinner parties-seldom for more than 24-at which the guest list might include the Windsors, Henry Ford II and Salvador Dali, Italy's Donna Marella Agnelli and Truman Capote. Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Maharajah of Jaipur, Noel Coward and Senator Jacob Javits...
Ultimately, the "leaders" of the International Set are those with money who do the most with it. Among the most conspicuous: Baroness Heinrich von Thyssen (nee Fiona Campbell-Walter); Rosita Winston, one of the world's best-dressed women and a part Cherokee Indian; Donna Marella Agnelli of Turin, whose husband's grandfather founded the Fiat automobile company; Rosie Warburton Gaynor Chisholm, whose grandparents were Old Guard Philadelphians, and whose mother married William K. Vanderbilt...