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...fictional families in recent memory seem more unhappy than the Catchprices, who own a General Motors dealership on the outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Gran Catchprice, the matriarch of this ragged clan, is approaching her 86th birthday and toys with the idea of blowing Catchprice Motors to smithereens; she has a stash of gelignite and knows how to use it. Her daughter Cathy wants to leave the family business and go on the road with Big Mack, her country-and-western band. Son Mort refuses to sell cars and enjoys a none-too-warm paternal bond with...
...automotive depression has cast a gloomy shadow across the country's showrooms. "In 40 years, I've never seen people so unwilling to buy," says Gerry Oste, whose Boston Chevrolet dealership sold 2,000 cars a year during the 1980s, but now is moving only about 500. Concurs nearby Ford dealer Fred Muzi: "There's a total lack of consumer confidence out there...
Financial Scams: Three Florida Scientologists, including Ronald Bernstein, a big contributor to the church's international "war chest," pleaded guilty in March to using their rare-coin dealership as a money laundry. Other notorious activities by Scientologists include making the shady Vancouver stock exchange even shadier and plotting to plant operatives in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Export-Import Bank of the U.S. The alleged purpose of this scheme: to gain inside information on which countries are going to be denied credit so that Scientology-linked traders can make illicit profits by taking "short" positions in those countries...
...carry two passengers and reach a speed of just under 30 m.p.h. "VSP design and marketing are a direct result of French laws that define a category of vehicles for which no driver's license is required," says Philippe de la Jousseliniere, head of City Car, a Paris-based dealership. Like motorbikes, VSPs are barred from French highways and expressway bypasses. "On paper, VSP specs are those of a motorbike," says Christian Malet, whose Liberty Car service in Paris rents out Marden S.A.'s Alize model. "But on the road, make no mistake about...
...something back to their community settle for contributing money to a museum or joining the board of the town library. When Marge Schott decided to fulfill her civic duty, she invested in the local baseball team: the Cincinnati Reds. Schott, who had taken over her late husband's GM dealership, bought the club in 1984 for an estimated $11 million, and has become one of the game's highest profile owners. "It's really more than a 24-hour-a-day job," says Schott, 62. Nonetheless, she has managed to turn around the fortunes of the red-hot team, which...