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Died. Battista Pininfarina, 70, Italy's virtuoso of automobile styling, famed for the sculptured elegance of his sports and grand touring cars, whose Turin plant turned out 75 mostly handcrafted auto bodies a day at prices ranging from $2,500 for a Fiat to $18,000 for a Ferrari, each stamped with the designer's genius for sweeping, uncluttered, unchromed lines, something that Detroit has come to admire in recent years; of liver disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
Merger Drive. Europeans are not likely to see a Siddeley-Messerschmitt or a Rolls-Fiat company for some time, but, mergers within the British aviation industry itself are in the offing. The government hopes to induce a merger between the two big airframe manufacturers, British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley, and perhaps even to try to unite the two proud jet engine builders, Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley. The combined companies presumably would be able to lift productivity, which is only one-third as high as in the U.S. aerospace industry, and two-thirds as high as in the French...
...crash helmet while his wife and child prepare to climb in. "The family car that wins races," proclaims the ad. Thanks to its fast cars and fanciful advertising, Alfa-Romeo is pulling ahead in the Italian auto market. The company, while a distant second to mass-producing Fiat, last year turned out 60,262 cars, an 8% increase over 1964. Sales were up 10% to $200 million...
...above all, there must be "no pretense" that homosexuality "is anything but a pernicious sickness." This question of whether it is a sickness has been the subject of a controversy among highly respected professionals for the past quarter of a century and, unfortunately, it cannot be solved by editorial fiat. It is regrettable that a magazine like TIME should choose to ignore this controversy and to give the false impression that only "homophile opinion" rejects the notion that homosexuals are sick...
...Eternal City has always had an eternal problem: traffic. In Julius Caesar's day it was chariots and wagons jammed axle-to-axle on the cobblestones. Today it is Fiats and Alfa-Romeos bumper-to-bumper in a jam that reaches maximum autosclerosis in Rome's downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...