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...Post-Op. Houston's normally seething traffic is mercifully light when DeBakey takes off for Methodist Hospital in his Alfa Romeo Sprint (a gift from a grateful Italian patient) at an unpredictable speed and in no particular gear. A man who never walks if he can drive, he gets his exercise by refusing to wait for elevators. He lopes up and down stairs and covers the hospital's labyrinthine corridors at a brisk pace. Professor DeBakey has a handsome, spacious, blue-carpeted office in Baylor's College of Medicine, and rarely uses it. In Methodist Hospital, Surgeon...
...vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night before-only the motor was gone...
...West, while 200,000 Westerners-mainly Austrians, Italians and West Germans, as well as 12,000 Americans-came in and spent money. Budapest, with its fine but expensive restaurants, its Magyar beauties in beehive hairdos, its "Rockola" jukebox parlors, its elegant Hotel Gellert surrounded by Jags, Mercedes and Alfa Romeos, is by far the most European city in the bloc...
...volume. Since 1950, its sales have risen fivefold, to $2.5 billion last year. At the same time, high costs have held profits to less than 1% of sales. Whenever an Italian telephones or watches TV, he patronizes IRI. It also owns the seagoing Italian Line, the Alitalia airline, automaking Alfa Romeo, and three of the country's largest commercial banks...
Renault and Alfa Romeo handle each other's autos; French and German airframe makers are cooperating on the building of a new military transport. When a licensing agreement or a marketing arrangement works out, the companies may then move closer; as in a courtship, merger is the last, though usually intended step...