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...statistical figures in your chart seem to imply that the five European makes mentioned therein represent the 1963 top sellers. For your information, the estimated Fiat registrations during 1963 in the U.S. are higher than Mercedes-Benz...
...Northern Hemisphere; with this it hopes to attract another $160 million from such sources as the World Bank and the Latin American moneymen, who are normally wary of investing in their own homelands. So far, a dozen firms have pledged up to $500,000 each, including Italy's Fiat, Belgium's Petrofina, Switzerland's Swiss Bank Corp., a Japanese consortium, and the U.S.'s IBM and Standard...
...investors, but not the Italians. They are moving into Argentina in large numbers, producing everything from auto tires and heavy steel to photo paper, vermouth and sewing machines. Since 1948, Italian companies have poured $1 billion into Argentine industry, and current investment runs to $1,000,000 a month. Fiat alone has put $140 million into its automotive and truck-tractor plants in Córdoba; the Techint industrial complex outside Buenos Aires represents another $75 million in Italian capital. In 'the export market, Olivetti Argentina is now selling typewriters and calculating machines to Peru and Turkey, Gilera motorcycles...
...corkscrew. A blue-handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...
Money was not the motive for Paques' espionage, though police said he took payment from "a great power in the East." He lived modestly in Paris after the war, driving a tiny white Fiat 500, attending the opera and reading Russian and Greek classics. Though he had been friendly with Russians since 1944, it was not until 1958, when he received his cosmic clearance, that he began to spy. As he puts it to his attorney today, he chose to leak secrets to Moscow because he felt that by "informing a power of whose pacifist sentiments I was sure...