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For Saragat, a devout advocate of the Common Market, the tunnel was a major link uniting "the six European nations that live in the same human and idealistic climate," i.e., the Common Market. Such restrictions were not for De Gaulle, who saw it as a step toward his great vision...
10% for TV. Latin America's Protestants range from century-old "mainstream" Reformation churches founded by European emigrants (such as the Lutherans) to zealous new Pentecostal sects, which now account for at least one-third of the continent's Protestant population. Typical of these younger churchlets is Argentina...
A Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and...
His two addictions were his undoing. Worn out by his trip and weakened by whisky that he soaked up after-but never during-his lecture tour, he died a month after sailing from New York. He had intended to read dozens of volumes of Americana before publishing his journal. As...
Returning to Turin in triumph, Fiat's normally aloof President Vittorio Valletta, 82, was cagier than ever, refused to discuss particulars. But if a great many details can be worked out, Fiat will build and help to staff the first fully Western-designed auto company on Soviet soil. (When...