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...Manifold Destiny. Subtitled The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine, this ho-ho-ho paperback, by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, contains recipes for 36 dishes, including Lead Foot Stuffed Cabbage (cooking distance: 55 miles), that can be heated on a V-8 while the auto is in motion...
Rumania's hard-line leader tries to suppress dissent by ordering a massacre, but a popular uprising drives him from office. An ugly-duckling auto, the Trabi, gets a moment of glory...
...Trabant is the ugly duckling of East Germany's roadways. The ubiquitous "Trabi" has not had its flaky Duraplast body redesigned since the first mass-production models rolled off the assembly line in 1964. Its motorcycle- size two-stroke engine coughs out more pollution than almost any other auto. Often the motor's two cylinders come on line one at a time until they sputter in unison in a puff of blue smoke, sounding uncannily like an ancient sewing machine...
...latecomer to the Saab wooing game, which began when Ford started courting the company earlier this year. After the collapse of those negotiations, auto-industry analysts expected Italy's Fiat to be the winning suitor. For Saab-Scania, which lost $123 million on its car-making operations in the first half of 1989, the advantage of the deal was access to GM's deep pockets. GM will gain badly needed production capacity at Saab's five plants in Europe, plus a stronger position in the U.S. and European luxury-car markets...
...when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan State, McGuane edited a literary journal and shunned the budding hippie drug...