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...Tudor, a battery maker. At the same time, with the strong financial backing of the state, which he refers to as "my principal shareholder," Cefis is following an aggressive expansion program; he has gained control of Carlo Erba, Italy's second-largest drug company; Rhodiatoce, a synthetic-fiber maker; and Bastogi, a major financial holding company. Cefis' main aim: to knit Montedison into a chemical combine strong enough to compete with giant foreign firms...
...cottage industry under UNESCO sponsorship. Powered by heat rising from a candle, the radio looks ugly but costs only 90, com plete with an earplug. In Africa, Papanek and another student sought a cheap means of preserving food. Their solution: a "cooling unit" insulated by walls of native fiber. It works for twelve hours on 20 minutes of cranking, holds 4.5 cu. ft. of food and costs less than $6. Thousands of other simple products -inexpensive stoves, water pumps, oil lamps-beg to be designed...
...brilliantly blue, bitterly cold winter afternoon, and Joe Downhill is 73rd in line for the chair lift. He shuffles his $200 fiber glass skis and $90 foam-injected Rieker boots, pokes forward a few inches with his $35 aluminum poles, and shivers in his $95 quilted parka, while his $10 all-day lift ticket flutters in the chill breeze and his stomach rumbles from that rotten $2.50 lunchtime ratburger...
This alienating décor is full of works of art. Fiber-glass nudes, crouched like Playboy femlins in the Korova milk bar, serve as tables or dispense mescaline-laced milk from their nipples. They are, in fact, close parodies of the fetishistic furniture-sculpture of Allen Jones. The living room of the Cat Lady, whom Protagonist Alex (Malcolm McDowell) murders with an immense Arp-like sculpture of a phallus, is decked with the kind of garish, routinely erotic paintings that have infested Pop-art consciousness in recent years...
...overwhelm Taiwan, but it does cast doubts over the island's future. Can Taiwan maintain its prosperity if international business loses confidence in it, or if the Chinese Communists really apply pressure? Last week the Taiwan government announced three new multimillion-dollar investments from abroad -an American fiber plant, an Austrian steel mill and a Hong Kong housing project-but overall foreign investments have already dropped from a record $139 million last year to an estimated $100 million for this year...