Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daimler and Sapphires. As Walter tells it, Harris was a dancing instructor who, in 1963, wanted to be just a gigolo and began ingratiating himself into the comfortable Bucks County life of Pearl Buck. He fawned, she loved it; together they wrote a mawkish book (For Spacious Skies) about finding one another. A year later, she made him president of the new foundation. He left his dance-studio job and moved into (rent free) the organization's elegant town house in Philadelphia's Delancey Place. Soon, writes Walter, Harris had collected "several thousand dollars worth" of suits, jewelry...
Echo of Empire. For all its drawbacks, the Commonwealth gives Britons something -they might regret losing: an echo of empire. An amorphous grouping of white and yellow, black and brown, it is well-nigh unequaled for sheer curiosity and panoply. There in London last week were the Daimler sedans, each with a Special Branch man riding shotgun in the front, whisking delegates from their suites in Claridges, Grosvenor House or the Dorchester to the Regency-style Marlborough House. There at the meeting itself was Harold Wilson, impatiently tapping his outsize Tanzanian meerschaum on the mahogany conference table when a speaker...
...Fiat appeared well after Germany's pioneering Daimler-Benz (1885) and other firms, but four years before Ford...
...electronics industries by 26%, to $2 billion. Machinery manufacturing has achieved an annual growth rate of 6%, reaching $2.4 billion in sales in 1967. Many large U.S. companies have firm roots in the Stuttgart area. IBM-Germany is now Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Bendix Corp. and Hughes International are represented through their German subsidiaries...
...world's oldest existing automaker -Daimler cars first appeared in 1886 -Mercedes' preparations have been as solidly engineered as its cars. Going into 1967, the German industry was hit not only by the general business slump but also by a sharp change in the home market; as the once big postwar pool of first-time buyers emptied, automakers had to adjust to the slower pace of replacement sales. Going against the trend, Mercedes has aimed its 15 high-priced, high-performance models which hold 7% of the German market, at "men who have achieved something...