Word: benzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five- week festival is one of the priciest in Europe, with tickets running upwards of $200 for the major opera productions. For those who can afford it, though, Salzburg affords in return an unparalleled opportunity to display wealth and finery. On the street in front of the Festspielhaus, Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury sedans steadily disgorge one of the most elegantly dressed summer crowds in Europe, the men in tuxedoes or formal Austrian loden coats, the bejeweled women in couturier fantasies and silk dress dirndls. One favorite local pastime is estimating the retail value of the gems on parade between...
...more than business as usual last week at the German border crossing point of Herleshausen when the gold-colored Mercedes-Benz and the red Audi parked within walking distance of the checkpoint. The mission: the exchange of convicted spies by East and West Germany. The swap was thought to be an attempt to create goodwill before East German Leader Erich Honecker visits Bonn next month...
...August 11 article incorrectly stated that the Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) currently did not have an executive director and would elect one at its annual meeting. However, Dorothee Benz '87, whom the AAA letter identified as a full-time staffperson, is currently executive director...
...such an atmosphere, corruption thrives. One prosperous bazaari, who lives in a villa on a tree-lined street above the center of Tehran, says he can still bribe a policeman when the officer stops him late at night in his Mercedes-Benz for drunken driving. A diplomat discloses that he pays off local police before giving a dinner party and afterward finds them in his kitchen dining on the leftovers and drinking his vodka...
...sure, Toyota and Nissan have little reason for nervousness. Imports accounted for only 2.2% of the Japanese market last year, and the giant American auto manufacturers were virtually absent. BMW's success, however, has encouraged several foreign carmakers, including Sweden's Saab and Volvo and West Germany's Mercedes-Benz, to push harder in Japan. As a result, car imports to Japan jumped 36% in 1986, to more than...