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...international competition that challenges the U.S. auto industry today was unknown when lacocca began his career. His father Nicola immigrated to the U.S. from southern Italy in 1902 and eventually built a small auto-rental business in Allentown, Pa., with 33 cars, mostly Fords. Surrounded by Model A's, Son Lido always wanted to work for Ford. After graduating from Lehigh and getting a master's in engineering at Princeton, he joined the company as an engineer in 1946, then quickly switched to a district sales job. By 1970, he had risen so far that only Henry Ford H, grandson...
...letter from Nicola Anne DiMarco [Dec. 21] concluded, "No political or moral ends can be achieved through nuclear arms." I strongly disagree. In recent years, more frequent peace talks and meetings at many diplomatic levels have occurred between the superpowers. In addition, a hot line runs between Moscow and Washington. None of these safety valves, which have political as well as moral implications, existed before nuclear weapons. Tom Sarbeck San Francisco
Three days later, Nicola Simone, 41, local deputy head of the special antiterrorist police force that is leading the search for Dozier, was shot three times in the face by an assailant disguised as a postman. As Simone lay critically wounded in a hospital, the Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting. The attack was staged in apparent retaliation for the arrest of two Brigades suspects captured in Rome with an arsenal of machine guns, shotguns and grenades in their car. Police also arrested eleven other suspected left-wing terrorists, including Giovanni Senzani, 42, a Florence University professor...
...Nicola Anne DiMarco Buffalo...
...heroine of William Mayne's The Patchwork Cat (Knopf; $8.95) is Tabby by name: stubborn by nature and depicted by Nicola Bayley. One morning, she is suddenly robbed of her favorite quilt by well-meaning owners. The snatchwork of the patchwork takes the disgruntled feline from garbage can to city dump, where she rescues the beloved bedding from rats and begins the long journey home. For several books, Bayley has been competing with other illustrators for the most lifelike cat postures and psychology. This year Tabby wins by a whisker...