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Cars & Roads. More than 250,000 Americans will buy and rent cars to see Europe, pay $50 per day for chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and $16 per day for Volkswagen buses. Cars can be rented through the American Automobile Association and from Hertz and Avis in advance, or from firms on the Continent, which have rates about $1 per day cheaper- $2.50 per day for a Volkswagen, plus 5? per kilometer (.6 of a mile) and gas. Roads are good except in Spain, Portugal, Yugoslavia, and behind the Iron Curtain. European gas prices are still exorbitant by U.S. standards, average...
...City of New York, he went off to Colgate with money provided by his mother. In his senior year he got a "call" to be a preacher, and proud Mattie Powell rewarded him with $2,500 to make a four-month tour of Europe and Africa, including a chauffeur-driven trip through the Holy Land. In 1932 Powell's father had a nervous breakdown, and young Adam unhesitatingly took over his pulpit in the emergency. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome man and a spellbinding orator, he was a roaring success; his maiden sermon left the congregation weeping...
...France's Citröen Prestige, a luxurious version of Citröen's front-wheel-drive sedan. Intended to be chauffeur-driven, the Prestige has a dividing window, intercom system, deep-pile carpeting and rubbed-walnut trim, sells for $3,940. Another new Citröen: the eight-seater station wagon, which sells...
...scientists note with mixed feelings the high social status of their Soviet colleagues. Top Russian scientists live like top U.S. business executives, with city apartments, houses in the country, chauffeur-driven cars and servants. Their U.S. counterpart often earns less than the plumber who cleans his drains. Even low-ranking Russian scientists get all sorts of special privileges. Scientists, for instance, do not queue up like common people; they go right to the head of the line, and nobody objects...
...secretary fires them off to RCA executives. On the way from his twelve-room stone house in Greenwich. Conn, to his antique-studded office on the 53rd floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow, Burns was Johnny on the spot during the Khrushchev-Nixon debate. He quietly slipped an exclusive TV tape to a departing U.S. businessman, who flew it out to give U.S. audiences an uncensored look...