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...cannot be corporate directors, and must forfeit their salary of $160 a week if they have any outside income. Only beer is served at government receptions, and the swiftest way to political oblivion is to be a wa-benzi, or the owner of a big car like a Mercedes-Benz...
Rowan, who was divorced in 1959, lives sedately with his second wife, Adriana, 26, a former model, in a spacious three-bedroom apartment overlooking the harbor of Manna Del Rey. The garage below houses four cars (a Mercedes-Benz roadster and sedan, an Austin-Healey and a Corvette). Berthed at the dock out back is a 35-ft. ketch, Aisling (Gaelic for dream spirit), on which the Rowans spend most weekends. "These signs of success," Rowan says, "are nice things, appreciated and prized. But you know, more important and more rewarding than any of these things is doing your...
...other Communist lands and crises. They are, by and large, skilled, well educated and often relatively well off. A son of Karel Ancerl, who has been named musical director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for its next three seasons, escaped across the border in his family's Mercedes-Benz 250 SL. In Austria, many have loaded up their boxy Skodas for sightseeing tours of the Alps while they await developments in Prague. In London and Paris, large groups of students who had planned to return from vacations and summer jobs to their schools at home were vying furiously...
Oldtime fans still talk with awe about the thundering Auto Unions that dominated the Grand Prix circuit in the late 1930s, and the howling "Silver Arrows" of Mercedes-Benz that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory after victory in the mid-1950s. But for a nation that once ruled the road, Germany has taken few top honors recently. Its last triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche...
Most German automakers have been speeding along in reverse this year. Turned back by the country's recession, auto sales have retreated 19% from last year's peak, and exports have skidded by 14%. Yet at the Stuttgart works of Daimler-Benz A.G., where 80,000 employees are rolling out more Mercedes than ever, the industry is on overtime and in overdrive...