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...Pope Sent You." During the past fortnight, his audiences have included Tibetan Lama Cohimed Rigdzin, two football teams, the children of Vatican City employees, the Italian National Blood Donors Association, Pennsylvania's "flying grandfather," Max Conrad, Mount Everest's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Fiat Auto Co. President Vittorio Valletta, the U.S. 686th Air Force band and choir (which serenaded him), the officers and men of his own Swiss Guard, and 30 of the carabinieri and motorcycle police who escort his car around Rome...
...greatest increase in scholarship allocations will probably go to incoming Freshmen, Bender added. While this year's scholarship Freshmen generally paid less than $185 per semester, next year's class will pay a fiat rate of $215 for rent...
...faith. Miles is distracted from his devotions by a girl named Audrey, and it is easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described in the fiat and dogged style of Dr. Kinsey, but without the rich subject matter. It is certainly short of Ovid. Novelist Snow's introduction suggests that he put in the erotic bits to disprove the notion that scientists are "unemotional, naive, asexual." Data inconclusive...
...your Sept. 8 article "The Generous Lender," reference is made to a certain controversial figure whose unique banking methods are under investigation by the Italian Parliament. Your untrue statement says: "Not long after [Giambattista] Giuffre's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira...
More surprising than sales to the car-minded U.S. is the growing export competition within Europe itself. Italy's biggest customer is not the U.S. but Germany, where Fiat's tiny, inexpensive (around $1,000) 600 series has jumped into fourth spot in sales, seventh place last year. Competition is so intense that Fiat recently chopped prices from 2% to 15% clear across the board on its passenger and commercial line. Not to be outdone, Volkswagen lopped $300 (to $1,750) off its de luxe sedan. But the cut was for the Italian market only...