Word: glas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bavaria's Hans Glas, which built its success on the tiny, utilitarian Goggomobil, displayed a flashy new luxury coupé that has the sleek, low lines of Italy's Lancia, does 125 m.p.h. and costs $4,500. Daimler-Benz introduced a new Mercedes, the 250 S, which still bears a strong family resemblance but is longer, lower and rounder. Italy was represented by a glittering array of high-priced Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos as well as by the nimble, lower-priced Fiats. As always, the Rolls-Royce exhibit drew large crowds. They may have been looking...
Opel 24 (including station wagons), Daimler-Benz 16. No firm is quite so versatile as the Glas company, a little-known family business tucked in the Bavarian village of Dingolfing. Last year it rolled out only 35,000 cars, but offered 32 models, from the tiny Goggomobil to a sports car that is said to "look like a genuine Ferrari...
...DOCTOR GLAS by Hialmar SÖderberg. 150 pages. Little, Brown...
Even the Swedes were dismayed by Soderberg's grim-grey novel when it was published in 1910, but today it is recognized as a Scandinavian masterpiece. Dr. Glas has never made love because the act seems too gross. One day a local beauty comes to Glas with a problem: her clergyman husband keeps insisting on his connubial rights, even though her heart belongs to another. That other, she intimates, is Glas. The doctor sees his duty. He must rescue the lady from rape. One afternoon. Glas slips a potassium cyanide pill into the clergyman's Vichy water...
Common Market businesses have gone on a merger bender. Germany's Messerschmitt and France's Fouga are jointly making aircraft. Italy's Innocenti and Germany's Hans Glas are making cars together, Luxembourg's Dostert and Germany's Wilhelm Seibel truck trailers. Agfa and France's Vedette are collaborating on cameras. Eurista is a new FrenchGerman coalition making electrical resistors. Gasoline is now distributed in France and Germany by Desmarais. The Société Française PIC and Krupp recently signed an agreement to build a petroleum plant. "Within...