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...BIGGEST sales are made on the weekends, Avery said, and the best customers are college students. "I'd be most likely to burn a college student," Janet said, "or people from Exeter...
Italy's state-run enterprises, which already dominate a sizable amount of the country's business, last week pulled a stunning coup. With a stealth that would have impressed Machiavelli, they gained virtual control of the biggest Italian private company, Montecatini-Edison, a widely diversified manufacturer of chemicals and many other basic products. The maneuver was accomplished through an unprecedented joint assault by the government's two largest industrial complexes, ENI and I.R.I., which between them have substantial interests in 275 firms and control all or most of Italy's steel, oil, shipbuilding, aviation and banking...
...Cefis' ENI, Italy's petrochemical giant, will indeed "coordinate" with chemical-making Montedison, and the two may unite to form Europe's third biggest industrial company. One change that ENI and I.R.I, appear to have in mind for the future at Montedison is the replacement of its boss with somebody more to the government's liking. Valerio is resigned to that. Government leaders, he admits, seem to be in a position "to do as they like...
Italy's prosperous Fiat (TIME, Oct. 11). Fiat had hoped to buy more than a 30% share of France's second-biggest carmaker and then try to revive its sinking health...
...notch above average musically, sometimes they add little to dramatic values clearly evident in the book and staging. Neither of Zorba's solos tell us much we don't already know about the character at the time of the songs. (As with their past projects, Kander and Ebb's biggest difficulty this time is their occasional loss for a solid song idea.) Perhaps if they find the right approach for a Zorba number in the first act, the burden on the book would be eased--thereby permitting some necessary cutting in this now-overlong...