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West Germans currently are showing an alarming preference for roomier foreign models, which now control 15% of the market compared with 11.6% only a year ago. Getting the biggest new slice of business are French cars, once considered junk in Germany. Warehouses are bulging with unsold German autos, while vehicle exports during the first three months of 1967 were off 15.3% from the same time in 1966. VW factories are producing about 1,000 fewer cars daily than they did in 1966, and since Jan. 1, workers have had 24 enforced days...
...would like to shake the hand of the author of "Pffhonk!" for his honest appraisal of the junk being handed us in the name of contemporary music. Are there no brains among composers capable of matching the ingenuity of those of the 18th and 19th centuries...
...York's bearded, gently humorous Jason Seley, 47, whose latest show opened at Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery last week, strives for the best of both worlds. His angular, hole-marked and hollowly curvilinear pieces are welded together from junk. But since he works with slightly used chrome-plated automobile bumpers, the results are so gleamingly bright and so artfully constructed that some viewers are unaware that they are looking at automobile bumpers...
...Hobart airport. In fact, the fire wiped out three of the island's burgeoning industries: a brewery, a fish cannery and a carbide plant. Trees exploded in the heat. Gutted paddocks sent up a stench of incinerated livestock. Houses melted. Autos burst into heaps of twisted black junk...
...metallic sculptures that look as if they were conceived during a tin famine. Engaged to a very U deb (Lynn Redgrave), he is about to meet her very pukka sahib army colonel father (Peter Bull). Also expected is a millionaire art fancier with a notorious avidity for avant-garde junk. To impress the guests, Crawford and Redgrave have carted off the sculptor's jackdaw furniture and replaced it with elegant antiques "borrowed" from the neighboring apartment of an exquisitely gay bachelor (Donald Madden) supposedly away for the weekend...