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While Honda Motor Co. has already begun producing Accords at its plant in Marysville, Ohio, and Nissan Motor Co. will be turning out pickup trucks in Smyrna, Tenn., later this year, Toyota has dragged its feet on U.S. production for a decade. In 1980 it initiated talks with Ford about a joint production arrangement, only to break them off after a year of protracted discussion. Now a decision is being forced upon the company. Next month the agreement under which Japan "voluntarily" limits its auto exports to the U.S. to 1.68 million cars annually is due to expire. With...
...their announced ranks. A large number were simply counterfeit, like the Italian named Tassi, who said he had been Napoleon's engineer in chief but who confessed, when it became explosively clear he did not know how to handle artillery, that he was really a bankrupt saddler from Smyrna. Such magnificoes were very proud, Howarth relates, and they fought a great number of duels among themselves over matters of military precedence. Otherwise, there being no army for them to lead, they did little damage-even to the Turks...
Onassis was not to the villa born. The son of a Greek tobacco merchant, he grew up in the Turkish city of Smyrna. At age 17 he left his family, who by then had fled to Greece, and traveled by steerage to Argentina with less than $60 in his pocket. By the time he was 23, he had parlayed his earnings from odd jobs (such as dishwashing and working as a telephone lineman) into a million-dollar business that included cigarette manufacturing, dealing in rugs, hides and furs, and operating a decrepit tramp freighter. His formula: 20-hour work days...
Seferis breathed desolation everywhere in Turkey. As he traveled towards Smyrna, the landscape grew familiar but his anticipation was tempered with foreboding. The changes Turkish soldiers couldn't rend, time worked more subtly and bewilderingly--it even shrunk the walls and roads. He remembered that...
Skala, unlike the larger and important town of Smyrna, was entirely deserted, and Seferis's childhood flickered on its broken facade. He tried to capture it whole in the form of a huge plane tree--but it had died. He looked for it in his initials scratched on a wall, but he couldn't find them anymore. Irretrievable roots...He left for the last time, a seafarer...