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...Tatar Republic between Moscow and the Urals; they say that it may become the world's largest truck factory (the biggest so far was opened by Ford Motor last August in Louisville). The Russians previously had approached Sweden's Volvo and West Germany's Daimler-Benz for assistance. It is believed that they asked Ford last week to help build at least part of the Tatar plant-possibly an assembly line...
Other companies are following the chemical makers' lead. Siemens, a major electrical firm, expects its 1969-70 overseas investment to total more than $100 million. It is expanding plants in Europe, Australia and Canada. Volkswagen expects to enlarge an assembly plant in Brazil, and Daimler-Benz will put $68 million into Brazilian and Argentine auto plants during the next three years...
...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...