Word: anglia
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...shoes, chocolates and cloth-but not what Parisians call "weedytweedy"-also rate high with Continentals. The British, in turn, have shown a growing desire for Continental products and even customs. British import duties make the Volkswagen $370 more expensive than the slickly styled, British-made Ford Anglia, but more and more Englishmen are buying the sturdy German car. Increasingly, the British are drinking French aperitifs, wearing bulky Italian sweaters, puffing Dutch cigars...
...were snapping up Fiats and Alfas at a clip that set an Italian auto executive to chortling, "So the Germans thought they were the only ones who could export cars!" In the bustling English Ford agency in Genoa, one of the scores of Genoese awaiting delivery of a new Anglia stabbed his ringer at the word "future"' in a poster proclaiming "There's a Ford in your future," and muttered sadly: "How true...
...coypu reached England in 1927 from Argentina, imported by several East Anglian farmers who wanted to cash in on the market for nutria coats. Then one stormy night ten years later, a strong wind blew down the pens on the nutria farm of P.E.T. Carill-Worsley in East Anglia, and some eight animals escaped. The wild coypus in England are descendants of those first escapees...
Since the coypu's natural predators (alligators, crocodiles and certain types of foxes and eagles) are all back in South America, the animal has flourished in East Anglia's bogs and fens. Commercial trappers are not interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap...
...prices for its compact car, the Falcon. A two-door model will list for $1,746 v. $1,810 for Chevrolet's Corvair; a four-door Falcon will list for $1,803 v. $1,860 for a Corvair. For its imported line Ford showed a restyled, British-built Anglia with a four-cylinder engine that has a top speed of 70 m.p.h., gets up to 35 miles per gallon. Ford says that it has 55,000 orders for the Anglia...