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...vocal about the President's demands that the measure be passed without any change whatsoever. A G.O.P. minority on the Senate Education Subcommittee had signed a statement saying: "This important and complex piece of legislation is to pass this body without a dot or comma changed, this by fiat from the Chief Executive." Republicans sent up amendment after amendment; all were voted down. Finally, as Colorado's Senator Peter Dominick stood at his desk shouting, "I for one resent the whole procedure," the education bill was passed by a vote...
...such statistics cannot conceal Nasser's failure in his long campaign to achieve Arab unity, or in his military campaign in Yemen that ties down some 50,000 Egyptian troops. His pell-mell "factory hysteria" resulted in a muddle of mismanagement and high costs. A Fiat assembly plant near Cairo employs 5,000 workers but turns out only 15 cars a day due to material shortages. The Helwan iron and steel complex produces rails that were turned down as inferior by Egyptian national railways and were finally accepted only on Nasser's insistence. At year...
...Their family-owned National Motor Co. of Athens selected a site in the port city of Patras, where it will build a factory in September, hire nearly 1,000 workers and begin production before year's end of a three-wheeled utility truck called the "Pully," designed by Fiat. Their initial production goal: Hephaestus' 20 vehicles a day. So many foreign orders have already been received that the Kondogouris brothers have earmarked the 6,000 vehicles they will produce in 1966 for export to Common Market countries; they hope to raise production to 15,000 in 1967, begin...
...factory, began assembling a German-licensed farm truck. In 1963 they sold their Salonika plant to Chrysler International for $1,800,000, a deal that gave them enough to start their $2,000,000 Pully venture without outside financing. The Pully, which will be powered by a two-cylinder Fiat engine, weighs 1,100 Ibs., costs less than $1,000 and will-according to National-"motorize the masses." Once the Pully gets going, the company will start work on a small passenger line -which, because the Greeks do not quite have a word for it, Victor Kondogouris calls "a Greek...
...wallets and women. The police labor mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night before-only the motor was gone...