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Fiat is more than a company; it is a city-state. Most of its 157,000 employees work in 22 plants around smog-covered Turin. Their paychecks, which average $1.28 an hour for a 45-hour week, directly support 40% of the city's 1,300,000 population. Fiat has company housing, company resorts and entertainment, company clinics and sports teams-but few company strikes. There have been work stoppages on only 34 days in the past six years. Fiat also controls Turin's La Stampa (circ. 500,000), which is probably Italy's best daily after...
...apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith wondered what a man from an earlier century might have felt if he had sat beside him in the automobile: "A rational man, like Dr. Johnson, must surely see that the species had at last given up its glimmer of sanity...
Time was when Frank Sinatra, 52, figured he owned Los Angeles. And he was proud of his possession. No more. "I've had it with Los Angeles and Hollywood," Frank announced. "The smog is so bad I had to visit my doctor once a week because my nose and throat are affected by it. I don't like the city government or the way things are run. The whole city needs cleaning up." So Frank is clearing out. "I haven't got too many years of singing left and I have to take care of myself." That...
...being able to write his story to meet Harper's deadline. Then another layer is peeled off: And then with another fear, conservative was this fear, he [Mailer] looked into his reluctance to lose even the America he had had, that insane war-mongering technology with its smog, its super-highways, its experts and its profound dishonesty ... he was tired of hearing of Negro rights and Black power--every Black riot was washing him loose with the rest, pushing him to that point where he would have to throw his vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons...
OLYMPICS fans arriving in Mexico City may have picked the best time ever. True, the balmy days are marred by just a touch of smog and the brisk evenings by a faint drizzle. But the city has never looked better. The preparations, of course, were carried out a la mexicana-with the in evitable, exuberant last-minute scramble to get a job done on time. The citizens proudly feel that it was their test, and they made it. Mexico City, scrubbed, brash, vital, is as bright and gay as a piñata party...