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...presently characterized by acts?at lunch counters, on the streets, behind prison bars. But these acts would be far less effective were it not for words?the words of the U.S. Constitution, of constitutional amendments, of judges, and acts of Congress, words given the force of law by presidential fiat. In the beginning, such words held Negroes in enslavement. From time to time, they slowed the Negro's march toward legal equality. Today, they are the license for action. Some key words in the long progression...
...cars and broods whenever a driver dies. Taunts of "murderer" in Italian newspapers have only increased his determination to step down. Partly because he feels ill-treated in Italy, partly because he believes that Americans understand his work best, Ferrari bypassed an offer to buy from Italy's Fiat and selected Ford as a partner. Climaxing nine months of discussions, Ferrari last week reached an agreement with Ford, will make it formal when Henry Ford signs it July 4 at Maranello. Under the arrangement. Ford will pay about $10 million for half interest in Ferrari's plant...
...backlogs of orders; automakers have reduced production by 30% and laid off 3,000 workers. Argentina has attracted 26 auto companies in the past four years, but only twelve of them survive; of those, several are in deperate shape and the four biggest-Kaiser, General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts caused by a dollar drought...
...night; sprouting from Rome's Janiculum Hill, overlooking the Vatican, is the red-white-green flame of the tiny, powerless Fascists. From Messina to Milan last week, wide piazzas and narrow alleyways sprouted in riotous campaign colors, and echoed with the loudspeaker slogans of scudding little Fiat 600s, as Italy's 34,-300,000 voters prepared to go to the polls for the first national election in five years...
...bare, spare autos of postwar Europe, which sparked the American revolution in favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...