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...family feeling to respond." Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain, Brazil and France, he returned to his parents' hometown of Turin to study engineering at the rigorous Politecnico University. That was when Elkann began to pass Sundays on the family yacht and afternoons at the Fiat offices with Agnelli, who was then still Fiat's chairman. Speaking from his corner office - the same space at company headquarters Agnelli once occupied - Elkann recalled how he first inched into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

Elkann is committed to the company. While getting his engineering degree at Turin's Politecnico University, he would sneak off for incognito stints at Fiat operations: a headlight plant in England, a production line in Poland. He continues to plug away in obscurity, and has declined to answer press queries about the future. Questions in the past were related to the tragic circumstances of Elkann's rise. Originally, his cousin Giovanni Alberto Agnelli had been tapped, but he died of cancer in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's son Edoardo committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN ELKANN. FIAT: With the Grace of Grandpa | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...August 6, both the University of Mexico (80,000 students) and the Politecnico (70,000 students) had suspended classes and were on strike. They've been on strike since then and will remain so until a settlement with the government is reached. By August 8, all the schools in Mexico City were on strike. A National Committee of Strike (Consejo Nacional de Huelga) was formed and elections were held on August...

Author: By Kenneth W. Estridge, | Title: What the Mexican Newspapers Didn't Print | 9/26/1968 | See Source »

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