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...Offered a better deal on an Olivetti duplicating machine, a branch of the South San Francisco public library replaced its SCM copier. Almost immediately the Olivetti began malfunctioning. Ink seeped onto the floor, paper tore, copies came out wet and smudged, coins with bits of chewing gum began sticking in the pay slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage...
...Pants Party. This week a group of New York City secretaries, backed by members of the National Organization of Women, plans to picket the headquarters of Olivetti Corp., which is running ads that infuriate feminists. The ads promote "brainy" typewriters that are supposed to eliminate some typing errors made by dippy-looking secretaries, who presumably lack the brains to avoid them in the first place. In the TV commercial, the secretary is shown as a vacuous sex kitten who finds that she can attract men by becoming "an Olivetti girl...
...dedication to growth and "progress." At least that is the vision conjured by an elaborate study entitled The Limits to Growth. Its sponsors are no latter-day Jeremiahs, but the 70 eminently respectable members of the prestigious Club of Rome. These include Aurelio Peccei, the Italian economist (and former Olivetti chief) who now heads the management firm of Italconsult in Rome; Kogoro Uemura, president of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations; and Britain's Alexander King, director general for scientific affairs of the Office for Economic Cooperation and Development. It is as if David Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Buckminster...
...Bahamas and The Netherlands Antilles loudly proclaim themselves tax havens, Luxembourg has quietly become a veritable tax heaven. Unlike any other Common Market country, it imposes practically no taxes on holding companies. Luxembourg now has more such enterprises (2,300) than it has soldiers (550). Du Pont, Uniroyal, Olivetti, Amo- co and other multinational giants have set up holding companies there and pay dividends and interest to them, taxfree. The holding companies then use the money to finance parent-company operations in other countries. Luxembourg is also a favorite neutral meeting ground for partners in joint ventures...
...Objective: Girls. He arrived at Esalen in a silver Corvette. In the trunk, as Miller tells it, were "a properly scuffed Florentine leather suitcase, a gray-green but charmingly ineffective Olivetti, and a Cardin-imitation blue blazer bought at Barney's." Miller was to participate in Esalen's curriculum as a member of one of its residential programs. But his first objective was girls. Martha, Catherine, Sandra, Lorraine-all proved cooperative. What Miller did not count on was thai his sex life would become data for encounter sessions. Catherine told Martha that she did not enjoy going...