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...Latin and Greek. After four hours and 45 minutes, the Baptist came out the popular victor. Encouraged by his success, Pastor Graziano Cannito began to hold services in a private house, soon chalked up 70 Sant'Angelo conversions. In nearby towns, which he tirelessly covered in his little Fiat, he had made more than 300 other converts...
...patterns and shades for each degree, Clifford and Venables spent a year poking through ancient records and sifting the lore of tailors along High Street. Bound in leather, handwritten on parchment and illustrated with swatches of material, their specifications are stored for the ages in the University Archives. One fiat of the new book: nylon fur is out. Sniffs Gentlemen's Tailor Venables: "Any fur on an academical hood ought to come from an indigenous animal...
...deal was an open challenge from Innocenti, a portly, 66-year-old onetime plumber's helper, to Italy's midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more...
...framework of the new Lambretta GoggomobiL He will have to dress it up for the Italian market, since Italians demand more flair in body style than the functional-minded Germans. But he still hopes to charge only $500 for his Lambretta Goggo, half the price of the cheapest Fiat...
...wife and 15-year-old daughter in a still unfinished modern house with a $13,600 mortgage on it. He is up at 5 a.m. -"I never sleep more than five hours a night"-for a breakfast of black coffee, meat and fruit, drives himself to work in his Fiat. Because he has stuck so closely to his office, he is not well known to most Mexicans. Not until next week, when P.R.I, delegates and spectators jam Mexico City's giant bull ring to hear him accept the nomination, will a sizable crowd of Mexicans see their next President...