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...Thank you for not calling us names we all too frequently hear. Whenever our sanity is questioned, it is our consolation that the greatest men who ever lived were vegetarians, from the Greek philosophers down to our time, e.g., Edison, Shaw, Gandhi, and many more...
Nobody expected miracles when Cesare Merzagora, an accomplished businessman and former leader of Italy's Senate, took over six months ago as president of Montecatini-Edison, the country's largest industrial firm. The Milan headquarters of the overdiversified chemical colossus was torn at the top by a management divided into two hostile camps-representatives of the government's substantial interest and champions of private investors (including the Agnelli and Pirelli families)-which held equal stakes. Directors had hoped that the appointment of Merzagora, 71, would keep both factions in balance and allay fears that the state...
There have been tension and trouble ever since 1968, when two state-run enterprises, ENl and IRI, bought a major block of stock in Montecatini-Edison. The state companies want Italy's chemical industry welded into a cartel strong enough to thwart foreign competitors. The government's men have proved to be far more dynamic and adept at grabbing power than the representatives of private shareholders. Now the state's executives are likely to move into the vacuum created by Merzagora's departure. In Italy, the government already has monopoly control over electric power, telephones, railroads...
...will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...
Packed with statistics-income changes within the region, population shifts, growth patterns-the study offers a framework for logical action. It is already yielding some benefits. Detroit Edison will place its power transmission lines down utility corridors proposed by the planner. Michigan's highway department will henceforth leave room on the center strip of new expressways for alternate forms of future transit...