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...other man was Gino Martinoli, 53, a student of American production methods who had been technical manager at the famed Olivetti Co. (TIME, Feb. 8). He became Necchi's general manager, taking over production from Vittorio Necchi, now 56, who wanted to spend more time at his villa and pheasant farm. At Necchi, Martinoli's fresh, efficient eye looked over the antique assembly methods, spotted gaps and waste from casting to cabinets. Less than ten major Italian firms use assembly lines, but Martinoli refused to believe that U.S. methods could not be applied in Italy...
Fighting their dirty way through this negligible plot the actors treat their parts with the lack of delicacy and taste that can be expected of their-rate talents. Enough it is to list some of their stage names: betty Bartley, Adrienne Angel, John Shanks. Only Nina Olivetti seems to have the faintest idea of what acting is all about. This she shows by winking broadly at the audience whenever she gets off a particularly sly dig at decency...
They deftly quashed reforms the Americans hopefully introduced." The result, says Olivetti: "A majority of workers turned to the parties of the left." What Italian industry needs most, he argues, is to copy not only U.S. production methods but the sense of community responsibility that U.S. businessmen have developed. At Olivetti, the theory has been put into practice, and it has worked...
Instead of the old piecework system, Olivetti has introduced a faster, less tire some production-line process. His workers have a time-incentive program which boosted production 62%, wages 30% dur ing the first year of operation. Further more, when Olivetti decided to build a new plant in 1950, he built it in Pozzuoli near Naples because he felt that the creation of jobs in the depressed south was more important than the economic ad vantage of locating it near his main plant...
...Olivetti's workers in Ivrea get low-cost meals in a company cafeteria, free med ical care, have summer camps and a kindergarten for their children. A substantial number (15%) live in trim, modern Olivetti housing projects; their wages (average: $80 a month), while low by U.S. standards, are among the highest in Italian industry...