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...week snatched, for a few minutes anyway, Prince Luigi d'Angerio of Sant' Agata. Driving home from a late-night party with his wife Giuseppina and his son Alfredo, the dignified D'Angerio, 65, noticed a pair of headlights following them through the dense fog near Monza. Suddenly, an Alfa Romeo passed D'Angerio's little Fiat, and tried to force it off the road. The inept driver had pulled in front too quickly, however, and Alfredo, who was driving the Fiat, had no choice but to ram the Alfa in the side...
Ominously, the kind of civil disobedience that has taken root in Turin is beginning to spread all across northern Italy. In Milan, protesters are refusing to pay increases in rents, bus fares and schoolbook charges. In nearby Monza last week, Pietro Russolillo, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, dramatically drove up to the police station to turn himself in for not paying the una tantum, or onetime surtax that the Rumor government imposed on 12 million cars. "I am ready to pay ten times the amount," declared Russolillo with a flourish, "but first you must persuade me that the money will...
...analysts predicted that small car sales would drop back below 50% of the U.S. market; indeed, they now account for 47% of all cars sold in the U.S. But GM is nonetheless active in the small-car market. This fall's lineup sports four new subcompacts (Chevrolet Monza, Buick Skyhawk, Pontiac Astre and Oldsmobile Starfire...
...some workers paste stock price quotations on the side of their presses, and others ask Gamboni how long will take the company to amortize the cost of their machines. As new head of Worthington International, he has informed the directors that he will continue to make his home in Monza, just outside Milan, on the ground that a multinational cannot be run properly from offices in New York...
...Grand Prix racing, there is a tendency, sometimes justifiable, to credit victory to the car rather than the driver. Fittipaldi has proved that he can win even with autos that lack a racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...