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Selling the World. Booming domestic markets account for some of the expansion, e.g., Volkswagen has an eight-to-ten-months waiting list at home. But the bigger push is for exports, which gobble UP 57% of Volkswagen's production, 75% of Porsche's, 40% of Fiat's, 33% of Renault's output...
Beyond Europe and the U.S., small-car makers are learning to tap markets in developing nations around the world where economy is more important than power or size. Foreign cars account for 41% of Puerto Rico's car imports. German cars jumped from 14,000 to 22,000 in the first six months of this year in South Africa, from 7,700 to 13,000 in Australia. Tiny Kuwait has bought 1,100 German autos...
...When Curley was around," Professor Charles Cherington recalls,, "he told the stories." And as Curley himself once remarked, "It isn't what a politician says but what he whispsrs that gives a slight clue to what he may be thinking." Thus, an attempt to give even so modest an account of Curley as his Harvard History is infected with compounds of uncertainty. But it has its compensations. To go from the faded pages of ancient Crimsons or the often jaundiced accounts of old adversaries to Curley's own recollections is to proceed from Arctic regions to land of balmy, ever...
...last resort, everything depended on the Prime Minister. He, deep down, could not bring himself to admit the independence of Free France. What was more, Mr. Churchill, each time we came into collision on account of the interests for which we were respectively responsible, treated our disagreement as a personal thing. He was hurt by it and grieved . . . This attitude of mind and sentiment, added to the devices of his political tactics, plunged him into fits of anger which gave our relationship some rude shocks. -Charles de Gaulle: The Call to Honor
...literature-loving women, and when it was announced that, as a feature of the lunch, one of them had won an autographed copy of Lolita, the excited "ooooh" could be heard all the way to Larchmont. Few novels have stirred up so much critical controversy as Nabokov's account of a middle-aged psychopath's passion for a gum-chewing, teenage "nymphet" (TIME, Sept...