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...Daimler-Benz...
...most other aspects of the proposed merger were left vague by the companies' spectacularly uninformative statement, but one thing is clear: the merged firm will be a giant. Sales of the two companies now total about $4 billion a year, a figure running fender-to-fender with Daimler-Benz and outranked in the European auto industry only by Volkswagen...
...Europe, Volkswagen is meeting increasingly stiff competition from small-car competitors like Simca and Opel, and this year's sales in West Germany have dropped 18%. Despite the high price of fuel, Volkswagen has even been losing a good share of its market to the much thirstier Mercedes-Benz, suggesting to some VW officials that the beloved Beetle configuration may have finally outlived its attractiveness. As a result, the company that once turned a one-model line into an advertising asset has been introducing a whole new array of cars...
...year-old man with a distinctive fringe of red beard. At the bottom of the ramp, a German hostess handed him a single pink rose; he smiled faintly and bowed over her hand. As police held a swarm of newsmen at bay, the traveler got into a Mercedes-Benz limousine that whisked him to the tiny village of Langenbroich, 100 miles away. Arriving at his host's small farmhouse, he was welcomed in the harsh glare of TV floodlights. He slipped past the crowd of reporters, photographers, local police, neighbors and gawkers. "I was in prison just this morning...
More Filthy. The third witness, Robert Benz, 25, of Lutz, Fla., conceded that his participation in political misdeeds was wrong, but he angered the committee by justifying it as normal. He also offered the odd excuse that his intent was to improve politics by showing Democrats, whom he accused of unspecified similar acts, that they would not escape retribution. "Do you believe that the way to clean up politics is to make it more filthy?" asked an infuriated Ervin. At one point, Benz snapped at Ervin: "Where were you in 1960 when it was accused that an election was stolen...