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...under-$1,000,000 class are also beginning to take to the air in Europe. Germany's Hansa 320 last week made its maiden flight, will go into production in early 1965. Italy's PD-808, a joint effort by Piaggio, the maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, and the Douglas Aircraft Co., will undergo test flights in June. Britain's Hawker Siddeley will deliver its first DH-125 jet to Krupp in August, has orders from 13 more corporate customers...
...American, Aero Commander and Lear. Britain's entry is the De Havilland DH-125. France's Dassault plans to introduce its twin-jet Mystère 20 in the spring; Hamburger Flugzeugbau is making a six-passenger plane; and Italy's Piaggio, maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, has teamed up with Douglas Aircraft to build the PD-808, known as the "Vespa...
Shared markets have also led European manufacturers to move closer to one another in product styling. Since Genoa Industrialist Enrico Piaggio sent his Vespa motor scooters swarming through Europe as the first postwar apostles of the Italian look, Italy has become firmly established as the fountainhead of European design. Britain's Clore, whose multitudinous holdings include a corner on 22% of the British shoe market, makes periodic Italian tours to keep up with the latest in footwear; British Motor Corp.'s Harriman turned to Italian Stylist Pinin Farina to design autos that would sell better on the Continent...
Vanishing Vespa. Segni becomes President of a country that is more prosperous than ever-and less vulnerable than ever to the Communists. In the poverty-stricken south, income levels are still only half as high as in the industrial north, but Communist strength south of Naples is slipping. More than $2 billion in new industrial and agricultural developments in the south has created more jobs, raised the productivity of long-arid farmland. Foreign investors continue to treat Italy as a good risk; U.S. Steel is building a $16 million plant in partnership with the Italians. The unemployment rate...
...sequence of untidy, unattractive love affairs . . ." Vivienne goes on at some length about the love affairs. The most recent was Kurt, a West German newspaperman, who made love with West German industry and efficiency until she, with English inefficiency, got pregnant. After an abortion in Zurich she bought a Vespa, some saucy fur-lined goggles, and "a rather dashing pair of black kid motorcycling gloves," then set out to work and scooter her way down the U.S. coast to Florida...