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Italian Jews eventually learned what happened to their coreligionists elsewhere under Nazi rule. Yet even after Mussolini approved the racial laws of 1938, which shatteringly demoted Jews to second-class citizenship, many naively clung to the belief that "it can't happen here." Ettore Ovazza of Turin, leader of the country's Jewish Fascists, remained a true believer until the very end -- perhaps even as he was shot dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist...
...food and drink manufacturers, investment firms and banks, may be the opening gambit of a Continent-wide scramble in which European and American companies will grab for the biggest possible portions in the soon-to-be- restructured European trading community. Friends have quoted Giovanni Agnelli, elder statesman of the Turin clan, as saying, "I really won't be satisfied until I have a Nestle." As the stakes get higher in Europe's food industry, the ultimate question may become who eats whom first...
...people of the Third World yearn for such products with a kind of religious ardor. Show a developing Polaroid picture to a man in a remote forest of Africa or South America. The developing image (his own, perhaps) seems to him more astonishing and supernatural than the Shroud of Turin...
Most cars are still dreamed up in Detroit and Turin, Wolfsburg and Tokyo. But virtually all the world's major automobile companies -- 18 to date -- have established design departments within an hour or two of downtown Los Angeles. The Japanese were first. Then came special think tanks run by America's Big Three. So far, an estimated two dozen production-model cars have been shaped by the new California design colony, including, of course, the delicious, almost perfect, and instantly successful Miata, designed by four young Americans (and a Japanese) working for Mazda in Orange County. Now the influx...
...dramatic changes in styling and materials have powered American bicycle designers to the head of a global business long dominated by the Italian masters. Says Marco Rocca, owner of a bicycle-importing firm in Turin: "There is an invasion of imported mountain bikes!" French manufacturers sold more than 1 million velo tout terrain bikes last year, up from 1,000 in 1984. Such Japanese firms as Bridgestone and Fuji are ATB top sellers in the U.S. But back home, many Japanese consumers prefer American bikes from Diamond Back, Specialized, GT, Schwinn, Trek and Cannondale. They are also snapping up stylish...