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...people pay 26% of the taxes-and grumble as if it were 100%. And all over North Italy-the flaring top quarter of the boot that lies above Florence-workers can now own the refrigerators and television sets they produce. Last year so many of them traded their motor scooters for autos that car registrations in Italy soared some...
...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 and giant electric steelmaking furnaces. Recently, to keep up with the middle-class Italian...
...Chicago, the National Safety Council said things were not quite so bad as they seemed, since more motorists are driving more vehicles a greater number of miles each year. Said a spokesman: "The most noticeable trend in motor vehicle accidents is that, while the number of deaths remains generally constant, the fatalities per million miles of travel are slowly dropping. In 1955 the rate of fatalities per million miles of travel was 6.4. This year that rate will have dropped to 5.1. People are making progress...
...that he always had two big-deal telephones going at once. June Allyson, his third, filed for divorce earlier this year (after 16 years of marriage) with the complaint that she had become an office widow. When the Powells went cruising to Santa Catalina Island on their 56-ft. motor sailer, Dick would answer the week's mail by Dictaphone on the way out and do little but read scripts on the way back. Betweentimes, he was busy with a variety of sidelines that included directing motion pictures (his best so far is 20th Century...
...Belle Américaine (Continental) is the latest French offering for motor-minded moviegoers: a souped-up export model, skaty-eight sillynders and loaded with hi-octane hilarity, that despite occasional wheezes will undoubtedly transport hordes of moviegoers with merriment. At the wheel is Robert Dhéry, a 40-year-old writer-director whose Broadway revue of 1958, La Plume de Ma Tante, is still humming along on the road. If he rolls on at this rate, he will soon be giving the incomparable Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) a run for the funny money...