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...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...
...weeks ago the U.S., the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank backed a $1.2 billion emergency loan to shore up the Italian economy. Last week, after the Italian Senate approved a stabilizing program that restricts installment-buying and raises taxes on cars and gasoline, automaking Fiat and Innocenti threatened to fire thousands of workers. Olivetti also announced cutbacks and layoffs. But amid these signs of protest and trouble, business continued to be good for one giant, Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale, a state-run holding company that is the biggest enterprise in Italy...
Ferdinando Innocenti, 71, is another who combines restless curiosity with shrewd economic sense. One day before World War II, Innocenti, then a small-time maker of steel pipe in Milan, bumped his head on a wooden scaffolding. This, in Da Vinci style, led him to develop the lightweight steel scaffolds now standard the world over. After the war, he bent his tubes into a motor scooter frame and, with his Lambretta, rode the crest of Italy's pent-up demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery...
Common Market businesses have gone on a merger bender. Germany's Messerschmitt and France's Fouga are jointly making aircraft. Italy's Innocenti and Germany's Hans Glas are making cars together, Luxembourg's Dostert and Germany's Wilhelm Seibel truck trailers. Agfa and France's Vedette are collaborating on cameras. Eurista is a new FrenchGerman coalition making electrical resistors. Gasoline is now distributed in France and Germany by Desmarais. The Société Française PIC and Krupp recently signed an agreement to build a petroleum plant. "Within...
...Innocenti's tubing will form the framework of the new Lambretta GoggomobiL He will have to dress it up for the Italian market, since Italians demand more flair in body style than the functional-minded Germans. But he still hopes to charge only $500 for his Lambretta Goggo, half the price of the cheapest Fiat...