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...down and almost out. He has also been Premier three times, a Cabinet minister in seven governments other than his own, and twice secretary (party leader) of the Christian Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted out on a vote of no confidence...
...your idea?" Again and again the Atlantic Richfield oil company asked that question in a six-month, $5.5 million advertising campaign that nagged Americans to send in suggestions for improving mass transportation. The company's own idea was plain enough. Top executives of Arco, the seventh largest U.S. oil company, were upset by public resentment of the big profits rolled up by the industry in the wake of the 1973-74 price increases. So they decided to do some image polishing by sponsoring a nationwide debate on alternatives to the family car. The response: an astonishing 30,000 ideas...
Beseiged by a policy of uncoordinated and uncontrolled expansion from the Harvard Medical School, the Mission Hill community of Boston is squaring away for a fight that will decide the future survival of the community. As Harvard moves relentlessly forward to build one of the largest and most costly construction projects in the history of the city, Mission Hill residents find themselves overwhelmed by the power and determination of the University. Where now stand three-decker houses with families there will soon stand--if Harvard gets its way--a towering energy plant that will compete with those of Boston Edison...
...brocade-Councilman Diego Novelli last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Because he amassed a higher vote total than Turin's 79 other councilmen in recent municipal elections, Novelli won the privilege of supervising the selection of a new mayor from among them for Italy's second largest (after Milan) industrial city. The outcome was preordained. When all 80 votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita, announced: "In keeping with the requirement for an absolute majority, I hereby proclaim the elected mayor of the city of Turin...
Exxon Corp. last year passed General Motors to become the nation's largest corporation in terms of sales. Now, so far as the public record shows, it also leads in making secret payments to foreign officials. Last week Exxon executives conceded to the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations that between 1963 and 1971, an Italian affiliate had spent from $46 million to $49 million to gain such political favors as favorable treatment of refinery licenses, levies on gasoline and heating oil, and other tax legislation. That sum far exceeds the political payments revealed by other U.S. corporations such...