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...design that has characterized the basic bug since 1948, the new 1200 is as much a throwback as an evolution. It has the same chrome trim and many, though not all, of the improvements built into the current 1300 and 1500 models, such as wide-track wheels and automatic choke. But the new car resurrects the pony 41-h.p. engine which VW dropped in 1965. It will hit 70 m.p.h., as against 78 m.p.h. for the 53-h.p. 1500, will cost a bare $1,121, compared with...
...Dien, a major vehicle-repair depot known in Pentagon parlance as the "secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...
economy did during four years of Depression in the '30s. Since last Decem ber, when tightening money began to choke off housing's flow of mortgage funds, the annual rate of home and apartment starts has dropped more than 50%, to a 20-year low. In the latest count, in October, private-housing starts were scraping along at a mere 848,000 a year. At that pace, the prosperous...
...beaming abroad. Within a year or so, he had been promoted to deputy of the section and given a responsibility for the stations that operated in the occupied areas. As such, he was sometimes briefed by officials from Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry on the Nazi line. Kiesinger began to choke on it. By 1944, two of his colleagues denounced him to the Gestapo for toning down anti-Semitic broadcasts and for harboring democratic ideals...
...this country, McNamara kicked aside the ponderous language of interdepartmental memoranda, smiled gratefully behind his rimless glasses, and unloaded the theme of his trip: the people of this country, he said, are failing to deal effectively with the immense problems -- in education, health, the cities -- that threaten to choke off progress...