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...head of its Hamburg office, and Franz Heinrich Ulrich, 56, who will also continue to manage its Dusseldorf division. Though withdrawing from active banking, Abs remains one of his country's most powerful businessmen. A director of 29 large companies, he retains the chairmanship of 15, including Daimler-Benz, Lufthansa and the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the state-owned railway...
...usual eyecatchers were on hand last week at Geneva's Salon Interna tional de 1'Automobile where 78 car makers from 13 countries bared their new chrome. Ferraris, Maseratis and Aston Martins gleamed disdainfully, while a Daimler reposed in a bed of rhododendrons. High performance and prices typified the new models. Italy's Fiat presented its $5,859 Dino, boasting a Ferrari-designed engine, while O.S.I, of Turin produced the silvery Scarabeo. From France came the Matra 530, a Le Mans-styled model with a sloping tail, a Ford Taunus engine and a built-in roll...
...taxpayers' funds to support an Imperial Household Agency of 1,200 officials. Inside the palace compound in Tokyo, a $38 million ceremonial hall is now abuilding for him, and a $27,000 Nissan Royal limousine has just been added to the royal fleet of three Rolls-Royces, a Daimler, a Cadillac and a Mercedes. The irreverent young in the big cities question the point of keeping a royal family, but oldsters still burst into tears at the sight of their ex-god's expressionless face...
...motorcade that followed was un like anything that Lyndon Johnson had ever seen in 28 years of politicking. As the King and the President drove past in a long yellow Mercedes, with Sirikit and Lady Bird following in a yellow Daimler, schoolchildren daintily waved flags and cried softly, "Cha yo [hurrah]." Not once did Lyndon yield to the temptation to stop the show and press some flesh. In contrast to the placard-waving scenes from Melbourne to Manila, there were no demonstrations. "Such an act," said General Praphas Charusathien, the Interior Minister, "is against...
...Admiral, there are more cars (8,700,000) in West Germany than in any other nation of the world except the U.S. Some auto executives deplore "silly sentimentality that results in people keeping a car for ten years," yet it seems to put no ceiling on sales. Last year Daimler-Benz, the manufacturer of Mercedes, sold a record $1.2 billion worth of cars and trucks -a 5.9% increase over the previous year-and is doing even better this year. As every German knows, what is good for the Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft is good for the Bundesrepublik...