Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes to link Ullo with a third Mafia hit victim: Michael Ariola, a massage-parlor operator who was shot with a .22 in Los Angeles last year during a Mob takeover of such emporiums. His body was found in a car trunk at the Los Angeles airport. Just before his death, the FBI has learned, Ariola rejected an Ullo demand for a share of his massage-parlor revenue...
Bonn looked like a city at war-as, in a way, it was. The fortress-like Cologne-Bonn airport north of the West German capital was filled with machine-gun-bearing border police, supplemented by plainclothes agents in unmarked cars. Barbed wire surrounded almost every government building, as well as the houses of all high-level officials. Makeshift machine-gun bunkers, constructed of stacked sandbags, appeared on the rooftops of buildings throughout the city's government section along the Rhine. Night and day, armed police stopped virtually every car in the city and suburbs...
...Guzzler Tax Carter proposed slapping penalty taxes on people who buy big, energy-inefficient cars starting next year. The Senate voted last week to delay the tax to 1980-but to make it practically confiscatory. Its bill would place a stunning $10,000 tax in 1980 on each new car that got less than 16 m.p.g., which would have the same effect as banning production outright...
When he isn't steering the government, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 47, likes to rev up engines and tinker with antique cars. Even now he is busy restoring one of the three venerable Lancias that he keeps on his sheep ranch in Victoria. His latest plan was to drive a 1933 Alfa Romeo in a four-lap vintage-car exhibition at Melbourne's Sandown Park-but at the last moment he changed his mind. Instead, togged out in a powder blue racing suit and goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack...
...would-be motorist, problems can begin as soon as he decides he wants a car. The cheapest model, the Zaporozhets, a tinny little machine with a top speed of 55 m.p.h., sells for $5,140. The popular and somewhat peppier Zhiguli (top speed: 76 m.p.h.), a Soviet-built version of a Fiat 124, sells for $7,850-not too much above the price of an average U.S. 1978 model, but three times the average annual Soviet wage. About a third of Soviet auto production is for export, largely in the form of a version of the Zhiguli named the Lada...