Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with gasoline at $ 1.33 a gallon, double its 1973 price, there is a strong demand for small, economical cars, while wealthy drivers will continue to buy expensive quality autos. But the market is less buoyant for medium-sized, medium-priced autos. That, in part, explains how Daimler-Benz and BMW managed to steer through the recession with barely a falter. Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars rose from 331,682 in 1973 to 350,098 in 1975. Buoyed by that performance as well as by rising truck and bus production (229,-303, up 11.7% from 1974), Daimler-Benz is now Europe...
...remains Pinto-sized by comparison, with sales of $1.2 billion in 1975, but output of its fast, sporty cars soared to 217,458, from 184,681 the year before. Like Daimler-Benz, BMW did not have to lay off a single worker during the recession and remained profitable, making $16.2 million in 1974. Even little Porsche, which sells a mere 180 cars a week (price range: $9,120 to $26,600), is confident enough to have embarked on a $55 million expansion program...
Students by and large saw him as a jet-setter, "an eccentric Southern aristocrat" always "flying off the Rio or something." But Simpson doesn't remember Spiro making outrageous boasts. When newspapers reported Pavlovich as having a silver-blue Mercedes Benz, wearing three-piece suits to class and bragging of a Rhodes Scholarship, Simpson was surprised. When he saw Pavlovich, he says, "He drove a blue Plymouth and wore plain corduroy coats. He said he had studied in England, but not on a Rhodes...
Syria's socialist regime even allows a touch of capitalism these days. Entrepreneurs who fled the country after the 1963 Baath coup, taking billions of Syrian pounds with them, are being wooed back. Syria is also permitting the importation of luxury consumer goods like Mercedes-Benz limousines (Damascus price: $25,000-550,000) for a new millionaire class that has grown rich on booming land prices and middleman business. Foreigners are now allowed to enter Syria freely and tourism is encouraged; two luxury hotels are being built in Damascus. The streets of the dusty capital, one of the world...
Jackie (Julie Christie), George's ex-girlfriend, is a sexy blonde who rides the Mercedes-Benz sportscar and wears the resplendent rings she receives from Lester (Jack Warden), an elderly, buffoon-like corporate executive, her beau of the moment. Lenny's aging wife Felicia (Lee Grant) is trying to fight off the years and deny her wrinkles by sleeping with George. Meanwhile, George becomes friendly with Lenny through Felicia, who introduces the two in the hope that her husband will give her lover a business loan. All the while George's steady girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) slumps around with...