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...Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward team up on the Watergate story, neither exactly danced on the city desk. The dissimilarities of the two junior reporters boded a stormy working partnership. To Bernstein, 30, a University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that the odd couple made an ideal journalistic team...
...owner is Harry Resnick, 49, whose four-year-old collection of old autos in Ellenville, N.Y., is already up to 60 cars. To further fill out his collection, Resnick also laid down $37,500 for a sleek, maroon 1966 Duesenberg four-door sedan (body by Ghia), $8,000 for a bright blue 1924 Amilcar three-place sport model CGS 3, and $15,500 for a 1916 Biddie Victoria touring car. Bidding right along with Resnick was the biggest old-car buff of all, William Harrah, owner of Nevada's Harrah's gambling clubs and the world...
Diamond Dust. The sportier types go Ghia. The classic is the 1962 Dual Ghia L6.4. There are only 26 in the world; Sinatra has one and Dean Martin and his wife Jeannie have His & Her models. The Martin household, in fact, runs a fleet of ten vehicles including a World War II "Weasel" personnel carrier. Young Dino, 16, is planning to ditch his 1965 Ferrari and get a Lamborghini Miura P-400, which cruises at more than 200 m.p.h. Dean's mother-in-law has Jeannie's old 1961 Continental, which became declasse in Hollywood when pressagents began...
...Volkswagen 300 miles to Las Vegas the night of the murders. At the time of the killings, Kirschke said, he had been en route to Las Vegas to address a Rotary convention. Witnesses backed his story. The only odd aspect to the case was that his own Karmann-Ghia had been found in running condition at the Los Angeles airport. That, said Kirschke, only solved another mystery. He had given the car to a mechanic to fix weeks before, and the mechanic had disappeared with...
...worldwide owners of the familiar Beetle and sporty Karmann-Ghia, including 175,000 in the U.S., went registered letters recalling models produced between last Aug. 1 and mid-January. During that time, Volkswagen switched over to new, permanently lubricated ball joints that connect the front wheels to the suspension system and allow them to turn. Unfortunately, the plastic sealing rings designed to keep the lubricant in and moisture out were not up to the task, giving the steering and suspension assembly the mechanical equivalent of an arthritic knee. Though no accidents were reported, corrosion in the ball joints could lead...