Word: fiat
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...best amusement park around is Paragon Park in Nantasket, and the best time to go there is Tuesday nights, when there's a $2.95 fiat rate for as much amusement as you can handle. The deal doesn't include rides on the new Indy 500 out the Indy--a new-fangled car-racing machine--should be avoided anyway in favor of Bumper Cars, the best thing at the Park...
...Italy, the "Black Tuesday" following the two-day election saw the Milan stock market record its largest single-day drop since a government collapse coincided with a slumping market 15 years ago. Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Italy's giant Fiat automotive empire, warned that the results would "push us farther away from the Western world." Speculators sold the lira short. Moviemakers, many of whom are radical chic Communist voters, fretted that Western cinemoney would...
...Ford's attempt to pretend the war never happened--enthusiastically seconded by politicians of both parties and commentators of many political stripes--is among the most irresponsible. It is politically irresponsible because it refuses to learn from the past--or engages in a sort of education by fiat, in which unspecified lessons are declared learned and the experience that should have taught them is forgotten. If American involvement in Vietnam was an "accident," or an "error," how can similar accidents and errors be avoided in the future? Those who denounce "recriminations" offer no answer...
...that very reason, Mitbestimmung is viewed with hostility by Communist-and socialist-dominated unions in France and Italy, who want no marriage between workers and capitalists. In Italy, where unions are among the most radical in Europe, an experiment by the giant automaker Fiat to involve workers in production plans and manpower organization appears to be in deep trouble after only six months. Says Socialist Piero Boni, a leader of Italy's largest trade-union confederation: "Today, this is not the right way for Italy. Here we have to go on strike." In Britain, unions want more than...
...talking about. He had just spent 31 days as a captive after his abduction during a traffic jam near Rome's Via Veneto. Last week Bulgari, 40, lighter by 20 lbs. and a little over $2 million in ransom, was found tied hand and foot in a stolen Fiat less than 500 yds. from his home in the luxurious Parioli district. He had spent the past month locked in a 6-ft. square cell, he told police, and could not identify his captors. After two days of seclusion, the gaunt businessman emerged to correct reports that his ransom...