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...they have become highly interested in the capitalistic theory that big-time car production creates many jobs, which in turn gives people the money to buy cars. Last week the Russians decided to call in some Western automotive technology. In Moscow, Soviet leaders signed an agreement "in principle" with Fiat, Italy's biggest private company, for "cooperation" in auto production...
...Eleven jet, which faces stiff competition from Boeing's new 737 and Douglas' DC-9, and its BAC Super VC 10, which seeks to crack the domination of Boeing's 707 and Douglas' DC-8 in the European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28 twio-jet airliner built with German, English and North Irish collaboration...
...effort is also being made to satisfy Russia's growing consumer demands both in quantity and quality. Some 400 factories are continuing to experiment with supply and demand and profit guidelines as promulgated by Kharkov Economist Evsei Liberman in an effort to gear the economy away from planning fiat to what buyers want (TIME cover, Feb. 12). Moscow has launched a concerted drive to improve Soviet advertising, even sent the female director of a Moscow store to visit the House of Dior in Paris last month with an eye toward more stylish Russian dress designs. The Kremlin is considering...
...executive level." A comfortable apartment, a beautiful working wife (Anouk Aimee) and a faithful friend (Jean-Louis Trintignant) cannot change his status as one of the lesser people at Rome's better parties. Other men drive up in Maseratis and Jaguars; Giulio (Vittorio Gassman) arrives in a Fiat so humble that he won't admit it is his, even after hearing that it has been dented in a collision outside. Other men talk of owning paintings, islands, mountains; Giulio's jeremiad is compressed in the plaintive cry: "I'll never have a boat...
...portal of the Palazzo d'ltalia, the bronze plaques replace a blatant bit of Mussolini modern-a 1935 glass panel of a lump-shouldered shoveler by one Attilio Piccirilli, inscribed ART IS LABOR; LABOR IS ART. "Brutto!" exclaimed Manzù when he saw it and, commissioned by the Fiat automobile company, engraved in 1963 his own images in bronze...