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...first day. We are looking each other in the eyes and we see that there is light there. This is the first day, the day of Fiat lux: Let there be light. The light is in your eyes and in mine. The Lord, if He wishes, will make known the road to follow. But it needs time, it needs time. For now we can only hope and pray...
Since April, DM has been driving nine European cars 375 miles a day each, reporting weekly on expenses and performance. One glaring DM headline charged that "the Fiat Europa has brakes which are a danger to your life." Fiat sued for $375,000, arguing that one case of jammed brakes hardly justified a blanket indictment of all Fiats. DM is also currently being sued by a watch company, a furniture mail-order house, a concocter of hair restorer and a bubble-bath maker...
Cold Fire. Italian refrigerator makers have become so efficient that last year they grabbed 22.5% of refrigerator sales in France, which quickly forgot the togetherness of the Common Market and threw up temporary tariff walls. Such firms as Fiat, Zanussi, Zoppas and Indesit have cashed in on the ice-cube boom by turning to making refrigerators, but none of them have been able to match the success of the Ignis Co., which has risen from obscurity to become Italy's biggest refrigerator producer. With sales of $65 million (a third from exports), Ignis now accounts...
...frappe, has set France's 1963 defense spending at $3.7 billion, or 5.1% of its G.N.P. Italy will spend $1.3 billion, West Germany $4.7 billion; even neutralist Sweden has hiked its 1963 defense budget to $675 million. Thousands of European firms, from such giants as Italy's Fiat and France's Sud Aviation to makers of uniforms and rifles, are getting interested in defense work...
...sergeant in the Israeli army. His new Cabinet strongly resembles Ben-Gurion's old one, and it is unlikely there will be any radical changes in foreign or domestic policy. A far more adaptable man than Ben-Gurion, Eshkol will probably govern more through compromise than by fiat...