Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics & Principles. If a search for national standards is what basically haunts Black and his brethren, the frequently fiat-like results have obviously upset many Americans. Totally apart from the Birchers, with their campaign to "impeach Earl Warren," the critics of at least some decisions include such highly respectable friends of the Court as Harvard's famed Law Professor Paul Freund, who sees in its drumfire decisions "a tendency to make broad principles do service for specific problems that demand differentiation, a tendency toward overbroadness that is not an augury of enduring work...
...Italy, a delegation headed by Deputy Premier Gogu Radulescu hit the Innocenti metallurgical factory in Milan and the Fiat auto plant in Turin in connection with a recently signed Rome-Bucharest trade agreement. Earlier an other Deputy Premier, Gheorghe Apostol, floated down the Danube enjoying the hospitality of Austria aboard a vintage riverboat replete with wine and willfulness. "Rumania won her in dependence in 1867," Apostol argued, "and will follow a policy of furthering her own interests. By 1970, Rumania will be a land of industry that must be reckoned with internationally...
...inflation, and government measures to curb it. De Gaulle's "Stabilization Plan" froze prices but not labor costs, thus pinched profits and further reduced industry's short supplies of expansion capital. In Italy the government has tightened credit to slow Europe's worst inflation. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli: "There's such a shortage of investment capital now that many industrialists are selling shares at any price to get money...
...quiet streets of Queens. In calm, almost dispassionate testimony, he told the shocked courtroom: "I just set out to find any girl that was unattended and I was going to kill her." The girl he spotted was Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, driving her red Fiat home from work. Moseley followed until she parked in a lot just 35 yds. from her apartment home...
...small Volkswagen, cutting its share of the German market last year from 34% to 28% . Volkswagen's larger "1500" model is selling well enough to make up for some of the slippage, and France's Renault is reportedly readying a bigger sister for its Dauphine and Caravelle. Fiat recently introduced a 12-ft. "850" model whose chassis is almost a foot longer than the company's basic...