Word: umbertos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something of a shock to many Italians recently to learn that there is yet another Agnelli in their future. In the 13 months since he was named to Fiat's No. 2 job, taking over nearly all of the corporation's day-today operations, Younger Brother Umberto Agnelli, 38, has stepped from a lifetime in "Gianni's" shadow and begun casting a considerable image in his own right...
...experience has not been altogether a happy one. Italy's strike-ridden economy, slumping for the past three years amid a virulent inflation rate that rose to 7.3% in 1972, has kept Umberto hopping from one crisis to another. Last year alone Fiat production fell short by 200,000 cars because of strikes. As a result, the company failed to show a profit or pay an interim dividend for the first time in its history. The prospects for an improved labor climate and an end to Italy's recession this year are mixed, but the younger Agnelli expects...
...Lately, Umberto has been surprising Italy's staid business establishment with regularity. Not long after taking over as Fiat's sole general manager, he put 5,000 Fiat white-collar workers on "flextime," under which they can choose their own working hours within certain broad limits. Last fall rocked the conservative leadership of Confindustria, an association of the nation's private manufacturers, by proposing that small firms be better represented in the group and that Italian industry in general establish better relations with workers. "La scossa Agnelli" (the Agnelli shock), Italian newspapers called the proposal. After...
Another troubled situation is the four-year-old liaison between Fiat and France's Citroën, which are supposed to exchange technology and share plants. Amid rumors of boardroom squabbles, Citroën plans to sell additional stock, but Fiat General Manager Umberto Agnelli says that Fiat will buy none of it. As in the Dunlop-Pirelli alliance, neither side can move without the other's consent. Says Agnelli: "Our objectives are very ambitious-to produce the automobile of the future for a worldwide market." Citroën, he adds, has "failed to follow these objectives...
...dying of a mosquito bite en route to the Dardanelles, a dozen real poets like Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen were cut down. Georges Braque was shot and lived, but the war deprived the 20th century of the mature work of Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named Gaudier-Brzeska who might well have rivaled Brancusi in his contribution to modernism. One of the saddest casualties was a German who never fought, the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. "Who stayed behind after these murders?" he wrote...