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...Erika. The cars in Ford Motor Co.'s future are the Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, code-named the Erika. As successor to the decade-old Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat, they are smaller than either GM's X-cars or Chrysler's K models. The Escort and Lynx will seat four adults with ease, and have fuel economy estimates of 30 m.p.g. city and 44 m.p.g. highway...
...American taxes, wages and benefits, and incur the same regulatory costs as do American manufacturers. And when Hondas finally start rolling off the U.S. production line, they will face strong competition from new small models, now being designed by Detroit: Chrysler's K car, Ford's Erika...
...habits even left him free to perform a good deed; he married Thomas Mann's daughter Erika in order to get her out of Nazi Germany and safely under the protection of British citizenship. Auden later enlisted E.M. Forster in a campaign to persuade other homosexuals to perform such rescues...
Ford will introduce a front-wheel-drive subcompact code-named Erika by next fall. In the meantime it has just completed a costly effort to downsize its big gas-gulping Lincoln Mark VIs, Cougar XR-7s and Thunderbirds for the 1980 model year and to boost its fleet average fuel economy 13% to an industry high of 21.6 m.p.g. But for a while, Ford's only real strong points will be its overseas operations and its brisk truck business...
...foreigners. TIME has learned that as many as 14 Israeli agents, some of them veterans of the Lillehammer debacle, were involved in the operation. The most curious of the known suspects was a woman later identified as traveling on a British passport issued in 1975 in the name of Erika Mary Chambers. Three months ago, she rented an apartment overlooking the Rue Verdun. She appeared to be an eccentric middle-aged spinster, known to her neighbors as Penelope, who loved stray cats and sketched street scenes from her window...