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...throws a private golf tournament for 40 or so friends at a local country club. The ground rules require that every player have a drink before playing each hole, and limousines are provided so that nobody has to drive home. Last year, what with the grand prize of a Datsun convertible and all, the tab ran to $10,000. All things considered, old Jimmy has turned out to have a pretty good follow-up act after...
Leading the Japanese from the No. 12 slot was Hitachi Ltd., a manufacturer of many types of machinery, notably atomic power plants. With 1967 sales of $1.7 billion, Hitachi was up from last year's No. 18 place on the list. Nissan Motor Co., maker of Datsun cars, whose sales were $1.27 billion, shot up from 42nd to 25th place, followed by Toyota Motor Co. ($1.26 billion), which was up from 40th to 28th...
...worst hazard turned out to be people. Natives in Tanzania amused themselves by laying logs across the road. In Kenya, two natives hurled a rock through the windscreen of Kenyan John Greenly's Datsun, knocking him unconscious. By rally's end, only 49 out of the 91 cars were still running, and two dozen drivers were nursing injuries. The winning car: a French Peugeot 404 driven by two Tanzanians, Bert Shankland and Chris Roth well. Said Shankland, with masterly understatement: "We didn't do it for the money-we did it for the excitement...
...were flops. Now, says Kawamata, we do not "take second place to any make." Japan last year sold 266,000 cars and trucks from Kenya to South Korea. Best customer: the U.S., especially the West Coast, where Toyota's $2,000 Corona and Nissan's $2,300 Datsun are among the new rages on the road...
...first nine months of 1966, Volkswagen spurted from 277,000 sales to 308,000, while G.M.'s "German Opel climbed from fifth place to second among imports, with sales of 25,000, followed by Sweden's Volvo, Britain's MG and Japan's Datsun. The Japanese cars are rising fast: Toyota is now the second best-selling import in California, where the Japanese are driving hard prior to a nationwide push, and Honda will soon introduce...