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...possible-within two months, farewells from both Rolls-Royce and the stud Marlene Dietrich called "the Mercedes-Benz of men"? Or was the master phraser of pop singing just teasing with another eloquent pause? He had been up and down before, but never out. Born in Hoboken, N.J., the son of an Italian immigrant fireman. Winning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Singing with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Becoming "the Voice," playing the Paramount and the Hit Parade to the tune of $1,000,000 a year...
...West in the technologies most essential to future growth?computers, automation, petrochemicals and telecommunications. Nor are Western firms overly eager to rush to Russia's assistance. Fiat's auto plant at Togliatti opened two years late and is still convulsed by bureaucratic and labor difficulties. Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz has backed away from a Soviet invitation to build the world's largest truck factory south of Moscow...
...Ralph Benz, Special Sheriff for Middlesex County, made the first attempt to serve the women with the injunction. He said, "We're not here to arrest anyone, just to serve a process," but he was shouted down and left without reading the injunction...
...completed a plant in Uusikaupunkt, an undeveloped area of Finland, to roll out 15,000 cars a year, about one-third of which will be sent back to Sweden; the Finnish workers get about half the pay that Saab's Swedish employees do. West Germany's Daimler-Benz has invested $6.6 million in a Yugoslav truck and bus plant and supplies technical help, in return for which it will get spare parts made for Daimler-Benz's German plants at low Yugoslav wage rates. Japanese manufacturers are dickering with India for component parts for sewing machines, autos...
...Daimler-Benz, Western Europe's largest manufacturer of heavy trucks, as well as the producer of the elegant Mercedes automobiles, is trying to line up a consortium of Common Market truck makers for the Soviet project. Discussions are already under way with France's Renault. Another likely member is Italy's Fiat, which is building a huge auto plant in Stavropol, which was renamed Togliatti in honor of the late Italian Communist leader. Daimler-Benz wants help in financing the $1.09 billion project; the Soviets will repay the loan over a long term at rates...