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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best way to solve problems is to foresee them before they become problems." Those words from Dr. Joachim Zahn, chairman of the executive board of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, expressed as well as any the sense of an unusual meeting in Brussels this month. Nearly 40 chief executives of leading European and American business and banking firms assembled in the Common Market's headquarters city, under the auspices of TIME, for a colloquy on their common concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TIME SYMPOSIUM: Frank Discussion of Common Concern | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prestigious Panel | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Well-dressed and attractive, the woman looked just right behind the wheel of her expensive, well-kept Mercedes-Benz. But when she pulled into the Baltex Garage in Boston the other day, she was as angry as she was chic. "Do you know how much the Mercedes people want to tune this car?" she asked rhetorically. "They want $100 for an ordinary tune-up. Ridiculous! I'll do it myself." She reserved a stall, returned the next day in blue jeans and sweatshirt, and made good her promise-at a cost of only $20. Says Baltex Partner John Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Fixers | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

After crushing Penn's Bob Benz, 15-0, and pinning F & M's Brett Senior in the first round, Harvard strongman Carl Biello (134) lost his steam and dropped his first match of the season to Rutgers' Bob Ciarrocki...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Matmen Drop Penn, Rutgers Matches But Share Easy Victory Against F&M | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...crime and nonpunishment. Throughout the '60s, he staged robberies whenever he needed money-at one point he and a partner flew to Canada and robbed a bank once a month for seven months (total take: $130,000). Along the way he lived in bank-robber style: a Mercedes-Benz, a private plane, $40-a-day hotel rooms in Miami, a Las Vegas trip with a go-go dancer. Whenever he was caught, he would bring out his insanity defense, get committed to a hospital, then escape. "Psychiatry as a science," he observed, "is the only science in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Return of Dr. Jekyll | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

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