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...sports-car aficionados, the sinuous lines and throaty snarl of a Ferrari are the ultimate symbols of automotive sex appeal. Even Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, a man who can afford the fin est, drives a custom-built $50,000 Ferrari that has the driver's seat centered between two passengers' seats. His car can go 180 m.p.h., but Agnelli wants more; now he intends to add the entire Ferrari company to his growing Fiat organization. A merger announcement last week said that "the current relationship of technical collaboration will be trans formed during the year into equal participation...
Agnelli first proposed a merger in 1962, on the theory that Ferrari's illustrious reputation would add luster to Fiat's line of rather unglamorous work aday cars. Officials of Ford Motor...
That conclusion seemed almost as unlikely as the conference site itself: Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. Meeting under the joint sponsorship of the Vatican and the University of California at Berkeley, and financed by the Fiat auto company's Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, two dozen scholars from eight countries set out to explore "The Culture of Unbelief." In their collective view, the world's supposed infidels are more sinned against than sinning-and sometimes more religious than those who call them unbelievers...
...Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli...
...Italian fans are concerned, their big bambini can do no wrong. Tooling around town with a fellow player in the company's racy white Fiat, Tillman says that "we've been stopped for traffic violations a couple of times. But when the cop sees us, he tells us to win some games and lets us off without a ticket...