Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auto manufacturers deny any wrong doing. The charges, said Chrysler, would "inevitably inhibit" the kind of joint at tacks on pollution that the Government claims it wants. Instead of demanding damages, the suit asks that the automakers be enjoined from doing in the future what they disclaim having done in the past...
...most widely admired and envied Italian industrialist-the Numero Uno-is Giovanni Agnelli, the head of automaking Fiat. Turin-based Fiat, which has produced four out of every five cars on Italy's roads, has done more than any other Italian firm to shape the country's new affluence at home and influence abroad. "Agnelli has a mythology not unlike President Kennedy's," writes British Journalist Anthony Sampson in The New Europeans. "Clearly his presence fills some kind of psychological...
...more to its country than General Motors means to the U.S., and Agnelli is careful to run it as a public trust. "In a country the size of Italy, a company the size of Fiat has a certain pulling power, which can reflect itself in certain things that are done in the country," he says. "You see it in your contacts with the trade unions and the government, in the way the newspaper you own thinks and writes, in the town in which you live...
...foot length of iron pipe at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. By then, Valachi was fighting for his own life. He had received the "kiss of death" from his capo (boss) and cellmate Vito Genovese. In the end, Valachi did what the Cosa Nostra presumed he had done already. He became the first man to confess his membership in the shadowy organization and spilled his story to the Bureau of Narcotics...
...Baltimore took the World Series in four straight games. When was the last time this was done...