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While the Western powers were debating his country's fate, the flamboyant Mobutu was busy with a rescue operation of his own. Clad in battle fatigues and accompanied by an honor guard and a brass band, he appeared again and again at Lubumbashi airport at the head of a...
Even for placard-prone California, the spontaneous sprouting of signs for and against 13 has been sensational. Thousands of homeowners display the size of their tax increases in their front yards. Bumper stickers have blossomed on battered Bugs and sleek Mercedes alike. Assessors' offices have been besieged by taxpayers...
These days Flick, a shy-looking industrialist with horn-rimmed spectacles, has a problem, and it may cause a lot more smashed crockery in those Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes...
There are other automotive routes to the statusphere, other limited-edition models that will guarantee gawps and gawks and parking space wherever one goes. They are not like the Mercedes and the Rolls-Royce, which are (relatively) mass manufactured and as common in some moneyed turf as hogs in a...
The Excalibur, which echoes the lines of the classic '28 SSK Mercedes-Benz, comes close to being an original; everything save the 454-cu.-in., 215-net-h.p. Chevrolet V-8 engine is built from hubs up in Milwaukee. The $64,500 Stutz Blackhawk VI starts out as...