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Thermometers plunged toward zero, and so did labor relations at South Bend's Studebaker-Packard plant, strikebound for three weeks. As pickets huddled to keep warm one day last week, a black Mercedes-Benz picked a path toward the main gate. At the wheel was Studebaker's Hollywood-handsome president, Sherwood Harry Egbert, 41. Pickets closed around his sedan, refused to let Egbert through unless he showed a union pass...
...counteragents, it appeared that the Africans are taking the communists for a ride. There is a small "party" which calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during the interim.) I was told of men who had approached communist agents for money, ostensibly to establish local groups, and used...
...highway leading from the airport into the capital, 3,000 workers and students carrying placards reading "Give Us Liberty," "Out with the Trujillos," "We Are Starving," gathered in early morning to await the OAS team. The impatient crowd hooted insults as a Mercedes-Benz purred by, its license plates bearing the familiar 95 reserved for Trujillo favorites. A rock clanged off a fender and the car slid to a halt. According to eyewitnesses, a secret police agent leaped from the Mercedes with a submachine...
...Revue," with 13 bare-breasted girls. Such a broadminded willingness to bring religion to The Strip won him much gratitude: Wilbur Clark, owner of the Desert Inn Hotel, donated a $185.000 site near The Strip for a Catholic church, and some still anonymous benefactor gave Father Crowley his Mercedes-Benz...
...brought out its handsomest cars in several years. To overcome their sawed-off look, the Lark and Lark Cruiser are as much as 13 inches longer than last year's models, and have been adorned with an upright grille similar to that of the Mercedes Benz (which S.P. markets in the U.S.). On the restyled Hawk. S.P. designers have also used the Mercedes look up front and a roof that borrows some of the thunder from Ford's Thunderbird. Though S.P. has dipped an estimated $10.3 million into the red so far this year. Egbert reports that dealers...