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...your leisure, you can page through ads for shoulder holsters, handcuffs, parking meters, and a variety of tear gas cannisters. The Mighty Midget Emergency Kit has "Two Six Packs To Go," featuring optional loading of CN, CS Irritant, or DM sickening...
...chloroacetophenone), a fragrant-smelling tear gas that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi-trile), a pungent agent developed by the British, of all people, that stings the eyes, causes chest pains, choking and vomiting for up to 15 minutes; and DM (Adamsite), a peppery-smelling gas that causes diarrhea, chest and head pains, and lasts up to two hours...
...Opel Kadett was rated highest among all small cars by Germany's controversial consumer magazine DM, which placed the VW second and called it "old-fashioned," estimating that it offered less comfort, visibility and speed than the Kadett. (The Ford Taunus 12M was rated lower because the testers faulted its road-holding.) Confident Volkswagen says that it could have sold more cars if it had only had enough manpower and plants-a shortage that the company is remedying by building one new plant and expanding two others. With a limited supply of cars, Volkswagen is concentrating mostly on sales...
Since April, DM has been driving nine European cars 375 miles a day each, reporting weekly on expenses and performance. One glaring DM headline charged that "the Fiat Europa has brakes which are a danger to your life." Fiat sued for $375,000, arguing that one case of jammed brakes hardly justified a blanket indictment of all Fiats. DM is also currently being sued by a watch company, a furniture mail-order house, a concocter of hair restorer and a bubble-bath maker...
Gradually, however, DM is making companies more enlightened. Construc-ta washing machines, one of the earlier victims of a "less recommendable" decree, sagged from a 38% share of the German automatic washer market to 20% ; Constructa sued and lost but subsequently introduced new machines that won a higher rating. Mail-Order Magnate Joseph Neckermann rushed to Stuttgart to complain about DM's criticism of a spin drier sold by his firm; in DM's test lab Neckermann watched the machine fail again, and canceled his contract with the manufacturer. Says one businessman: "DM's greatest merit...