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Agnelli went to work under Vittorio Valletta, a paternal technocrat who had been old Giovanni Agnelli's choice to rebuild Fiat after the war. With Mussolini gone, Valletta found an even better patron: the ordinary Italian consumer. In 1953, he brought out the tiny, tinny Fiat 500 model. Italy's first cheap mass-produced car, the 500 fit Valletta's prescription for something that could be made at the lowest possible cost, yet still be "a complete automobile." Italians dubbed it the "Mickey Mouse," and it proved to be for them what Ford's Tin Lizzie...
Agnelli had specialized in handling Fiat's finances, and he always knew that he would become chief executive when "circumstances made it available." The moment came when Valletta finally retired at 82 in early 1966. Valletta had groomed another technocrat for his job, but Vice Chairman Agnelli had other ideas. "I decided that I was the best person," he says, "and I took over...
Last month, when Boumediene installed still another technocrat as head of his party, the National Liberation Front, and ordered the reorganization of the entire party structure, Zbiri could take no more. At the head of a column of troops and tanks, he set out from Orleansville, 105 miles southwest of Algiers, and began rolling toward the capital. He expected no resistance. Army cohorts in Algiers had promised to disrupt government communications, and he was counting on the support of Major Said Abid, commander of the First Military Region, who controlled the approaches to Algiers. There was one flaw...
...debut but rehearse the catechism of Kremlin clichés. He did, hopeful U.S. diplomats noted, leave open a minuscule area for potential negotiation by acknowledging Israel's right to national existence and mentioning the need for a "common language" among the great powers. Otherwise he sounded like a technocrat's Molotov...
Rise to Power: Gifted with phenomenal memory and an analytical intelligence that might have taken him to the top of any capitalist corporation, Kosygin advanced swiftly as an efficient, inventive technocrat of the Stalinist era. He became overall boss of the textile industry in 1939, during the war served as deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of People's Commissars. He soon caught Stalin's eye, and in 1948 became the youngest (43) member of the Politburo...