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This is the way things work at Ital Design. Giugiaro maintains a large engineering staff to solve functional and production problems as the design evolves. One example of this comprehensive approach, cited by Giugiaro, is the door of his Fiat Panda. The recessed door hinges are covered with plates on the outside. Giugiaro's hinges make it unnecessary for an assembler to work on the cramped inside of an auto-the outside hinges can be installed with ease...
...grandson of craftsmen who decorated churches and palazzi in the village of Garessio in northwest Italy, Giugiaro was hired by Fiat's design department when he was 17. At 21, he was lured away by the famed car designer Nuccio Bertone. In six years with Bertone, he created 20 cars, from economy-model Simcas and Mazdas to expensive Ferraris and Aston Martins. At 27, Giugiaro graduated to Ghia, where he designed renowned sports cars for Maserati and De Tomaso. At 30, he opened his own firm. Married, the father of two children, Giugiaro resides in a rambling ranch-style...
...unalterably opposed to racial discrimination in any form," he said. His only intention in changing the tax regulations, he stressed, was to remove from the IRS the power to determine public policy. Said he: "Such agencies, no matter how well intentioned, cannot be allowed to govern by legislative fiat...
...discoveries astounded Italian police. Documents seized on Jan. 9 in raids on three Red Brigades hideouts in Rome revealed a frightening agenda for terror: a rocket assault on Christian Democratic Party headquarters, the assassination of a leading Roman judge, the kidnaping of a Fiat executive, bomb attacks on police stations and a mass breakout by jailed left-wing terrorists. Amid the weaponry confiscated in the raids were three Soviet-made antitank grenades with launchers, two French-made air-to-ground missiles and a collection of small arms and plastic explosives...
Recent accounts of the death of nuclear power are premature. The laws of nuclear physics exist. They cannot be suspended or amended. Consequently, those laws and their byproduct, nuclear power, are beyond legislative fiat. The technology is still in its infancy, with all of the attendant promise of a baby...