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Woodward appears equally insouciant about wealth. He bought a house near Georgetown for a price in six figures and picked up a new BMW Bavaria to replace the aging VW Karmann-Ghia in which the two did their nocturnal Watergate investigating. The two reporters share a financial adviser, have sunk large sums into tax-exempt municipal bonds, and are worried about their tax bill. They have each earned about $1 million in the past year...
...armed with anything from shotguns to ancient bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry. Near the coastal resort of Famagusta, TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager watched in awe as a Greek Cypriot mobile unit that consisted of a Fiat, a BMW and a bright red open-top MG tried to turn the flank of a Turkish column...
...MONTHS ago an unknown American Man of Letters and Scientist named Robert Pirsig, an academic outcast, a thin and dishevelled middle class American who rides a BMW and makes a living writing technical manuals, published a first novel entitled Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book is a major signpost on the cultural road we have been glancing at, a massive imaginative inquiry into technology, the philosophical foundations of science and their bearings on American life. It uncovers and explores certain important hinges that lie rusted in the region of unexamined values and beliefs...
...trying to hold at 50 m.p.h., but nobody else was. On a 120-mile trip along the New York Thruway, one driver cut his speed to the state's new limit of 50-and counted 138 cars racing past him. (But the driver improved his mileage in his BMW from 20 to 25 miles per gallon.) In Washington, one of the few Western states that has imposed a new legal limit, Anthony Stokes, a Seattle builder, chased down a speeding state patrol car and demanded that the offending patrolman give himself a ticket...
...first motorcycle at 16 and am unable to say when I'll have my last," he explained in Sydney. Australia, where he will be starring in William Douglas-Home's play, Lloyd George Knew My Father. Invited to have a look at a new German BMW, Sir Ralph suddenly took off for a spin. "Sorry, dear," he said later to his wife. "The infernal machine got the better...