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Made overseas by an Italian director (Sergio Leone), based loosely on the Japanese film Yojimbo, and featuring a multilingual cast, Fistful should have been a loser from the word avanti...
...democracy espoused by Britain's Labor Party. But the way was bitterly blocked by the hard-line Marxist minority in the party's far left. In recent weeks Nenni, as party president, decided to crack the whip, managed to isolate his leftist opposition, even got control of Avanti, the party newspaper -and last week wrote a boldly anti-Communist editorial. But this courageous move cost him heavily: seven party leaders bolted, more threatened to bolt...
Studebaker's dealers had no such cushion. With the high-priced Avanti sports car, the medium-priced Hawk and all commercial trucks discontinued, they can still sell the low-priced Studebaker sedans that will be made in Hamilton. But business has been so bad recently that it could hardly get worse after last week's announcement...
Whether Egbert's absence proves temporary or permanent, his reign at Studebaker has produced controversies as well as cars. Egbert balks at the slightest hint that Studebaker might eventually withdraw from automaking. His radically styled Avanti sports car, tooled up at a cost of about $25 million, is a failure. Though Egbert predicted that at least 10,000 a year would be sold, the nine-month total is only 2,083. "If the Avanti had made it," says a former Studebaker staffer, "Egbert would have been a genius...
Egbert also has to live down some mishaps from the '63 model year. Foremost among them was the longnose, short-tail Avanti sports car, which Egbert intended as his answer to the Thunderbird. An incredible series of production snafus involving its Fiberglas body delayed the Avanti's debut by six months; Egbert had confidently predicted 10,000 sales of the '63 Avantis-at about $5,000 each-but only 1,743 have moved. Similarly hurt was the sales potential of another Egbert innovation, the Wagonaire station wagon with a sliding roof; at the last minute, Studebaker discovered...