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...Kennedy's warm thanks for work during West Virginia's 1960 presidential primary-seemed assured. Only Winston Prouty had doubts. He thought it might yet be interesting to hear from an ex-partner in Roosevelt's Washington foreign-car dealership who sued F.D.R. Jr. and the Fiat Motor Co. for $9,000,000 a few years ago. The rest of the committee, both Republicans and Democrats, seemed mighty pleased when Junior vowed: "I will try to be purer than Caesar's wife." There were Rotarian guffaws when Senator Magnuson quipped: "Well, that's asking...
Thinking that her next teaching job might be in the country far from public transport, Miss Hunter bought a snappy little red Fiat, signed on with a driving school, and hung out her L. After only 40 lessons, she was ready for a trial spin. But her jolting stops and starts so terrified her instructor that he got out of the car, remarking: "This is lunacy; it's suicide. I'm not going another inch with you. I've had enough." Undeterred, plucky Miss Hunter had another go two days later, sideswiped a five-ton truck...
...time of need, Roosevelt last week finally got his reward: Kennedy nominated him to become Under Secretary of Commerce. After confirmation by the Senate (where an un-vengeful Humphrey is now Democratic whip), Roosevelt, 48, a former Congressman from New York (1949-54) who is presently a Fiat and Jaguar dealer in Washington, will take the $21,000-a-year post being vacated by Edward Gudeman, who is returning to private business...
...also famed for her "glue," her ability to link scenes smoothly, as when the distorted image of a gangster in a funhouse mirror gives way in an eyeblink to a beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart?" Or, as she adjusts the plastic welder's mask designed to protect her from flying chips and plaster: "Darling, could you hold the gun this way and shoot down the alley...
Management by Computer. Though the Fiat automobile company and other lay investors now hold substantial interests in Immobiliare, the Vatican is the company's largest single stockholder, and three members of Rome's "Black" nobility, including a nephew of Pope Pius XII, sit on Immobiliare's board. The man who runs things at Immobiliare is Aldo Samaritani, 58, the company's shrewd, publicity-shunning general manager...