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...stretching far to the north and south. Its streets, once asphalt museums for antiquated jalopies, are now clogged with gleaming SEATs, the Spanish-made version of the Italian Fiat. The cars are still largely for the rich; a better index to the general improvement is the horde of buzzing motor scooters steered dauntlessly through the city streets by clerks, factory foremen, salesmen, shopkeepers - the nucleus of the new middle class slowly taking shape in Spain...
...control of its product if it built its own manufacturing organizations around the world. In 1959 M-F took over Perkins. Ltd. of Peterborough, England, a company from which it had been buying 160,000 diesel engines a year. It quickly followed that with the purchase of the Standard Motor Co's tractor factories, in Coventry. England, and in France, then expanded into Italy, South Africa. India and Brazil. Today the company operates 26 factories in nine countries, manufactures 80% of what it sells v. only 25% in 1956. Design has been so meticulously standardized, says Thornbrough, that...
...Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II last week expressed "fear that the enormous power that can be mustered by a determined and resourceful President might be used increasingly to impose informal, but nonetheless direct, controls on the legitimate action of business and, possibly, labor." At a meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in Manhattan, steelmen were critical, sometimes bitter, about the President's role in the steel-price rollback. As for labor's guidelines, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was having none: President George Meany announced last week that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will open a national drive...
...State law will require all non-Massachusetts students who own automobiles at the University to register with the Registry of Motor Vehicles every year...
...registration form will be filed in the city where the student attends school and with the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The University will make forms available the beginning of the Fall Term, most probably during registration...