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Trying to keep the campaign from becoming another Titanic, senior Ford advisers recently held an emergency summit conference. Among those attending were Republican Heavyweights Melvin Laird, Dean Burch and Bryce Harlow as well as some G.O.P. congressional leaders and two savvy fund raisers, Detroit Industrialist Max Fisher and California Businessman Leon Parma...
...seem to have recovered any political ground. Says Small Businessman Eugenic Buontempo of Naples, reflecting the resigned attitude of millions of his countrymen: "We've tried everything else; we might as well try the Communists." Gianni Agnelli, head of the giant Fiat company and Italy's foremost industrialist, describes the Christian Democratic government today as "confused" and "incapable...
...patriarch of the huge Fiat automobile empire, Gianni Agnelli, 55, is perhaps Italy's most influential industrialist. He is also one of the country's most astute and articulate analysts of political affairs. Last week, in an interview with TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, Agnelli spoke out on some of the major problems facing Italy today...
Last week the Club reversed its position. At a three-day meeting in Philadelphia sponsored mainly by the First Pennsylvania Corp., a leading bank, speaker after speaker came out for more growth. Why? The Club's founder, Italian Industrialist Aurelio Peccei, says that Limits was intended to jolt people from the comfortable idea that present growth trends could continue indefinitely. That done, he says, the Club could then seek ways to close the widening gap between rich and poor nations-inequities that, if they continue, could all too easily lead to famine, pollution and war. The Club...
...again, perhaps because none of them are any longer owned by members of the founding family. In 1964 the Paris operation was sold to two Americans living in Britain; they in turn sold out in 1972 for $12.8 million to a syndicate headed by Robert Hocq, a brash French industrialist. In 1974 Hocq organized another group to buy the London house. And in January still another European syndicate purchased the U.S. operation for $9.5 million from Kenton Corp., a holding company that had owned the New York store since 1968. This month the deal was finally sealed when Hocq signed...