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...most American cars above those of competing foreign models, and no U.S. automaker can match the gas-mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them for the rest of their lifetime...
...first political kidnaping in West German history was carried out with almost military precision. Lorenz's black Mercedes was cut off by a truck and rammed in the rear by a red Fiat. When Lorenz's chauffeur got out to discuss the accident with the Fiat's woman driver, he was knocked to the street by a bearded man from still another car. The men then jumped into the Mercedes and drove the protesting Lorenz away...
Berlin police were quickly able to identify the blonde Fiat driver as Angela Luther, 34, a suspected supporter of West Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of radical terrorists. Scarcely 24 hours after the kidnaping, however, the West German news agency DPA received a better explanation-a letter from the kidnapers and a photograph of the captured Lorenz-of what had happened. The kidnapers identified themselves as the "June Second Movement," referring to the day in 1967 when police shot and killed a member of a crowd of students protesting a visit to West Germany by the Shah...
...brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure on the South? Could the Confederacy, England and the rest of the Commonwealth, banding together as the Association of English Speaking Peoples have imposed peace by fiat on Europe and thus avoided World War II? Probably not, but it is easy to imagine Churchill imagining himself rising to address the crucial meeting of the Association foreign ministers and changing history with his devastating use of the subjunctive...
...CARS AND KITCHEN SCALES. The professional automotive designer probably commands higher status in Italy than anywhere else. The undisputed heir to the tradition of the late Pinin Farina and Nuncio Bertone is a prodigious creator named Giorgietto Giugiaro, the son of a church gilder. Giugiaro went to work for Fiat at 17 and designed his first complete car, the Alfa 2000 Sprint, when he was only 21. At 36, the head of his own firm, Ital Design, Giugiaro has more than a score of auto designs in his gallery of achievements, including the new generation of post-bug Volkswagens, Ghia...