Word: microbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typewriters with keyboards of secretaries' red-nailed fingers. He has since graduated to relatively clean flowerpots and realistic, 8-ft.-long clay models of his ranch house at 1303 Alice Street. Australian-born Margaret Dodd has created a rococo ceramic line of miniature cars, ranging from a Volkswagen microbus to a 1937 La Salle. David Gilhooly, 25, molds dyspeptic hippos, crocodiles and warthogs that possess much of the pudgy charm of their 6-ft. 5-in. 250-lb. creator...
Although Volkswagen over the years modified virtually all of the bug's components and introduced new models such as a microbus and station wagon, Nordhoff held to his proven formula of keeping the basic VW's lines unchanged from year to year, thus improving resale value. Last spring, his own Wirtschaftswunder long since accomplished, Nordhoff announced that he would retire at the end of 1968, and in a typically efficient manner said he intended during his last months at VW "to put my house in order." He thereupon groomed Kurt Lotz, former chairman of a Mannheim electrotechnical firm...
...coordinators of yesterday's protest apparently had not agreed whether or not to try to enter. One apparent leader, Steve Newman of PLP, urged 17 pickets in a VW microbus to try to get by the guards at the gate. They refused...
Plea for Flexibility. Volkswagen is also puzzled over how to design an impact-absorbing steering column for its boxy Microbus, since the column is nearly vertical. One especially irksome item is a rear-window defroster. France's Renault complains that such a device would be "superfluous," since an outside mirror does the job adequately. An impossibility in many very small cars, such as Britain's Mini-Minor, is a requirement to have the front seat set back far enough so that in a collision passengers' heads will not snap down to the dashboard. One solution: shoulder...
...mother in Pittsburgh, 15 miles away. The family had a typical three-generation reunion. When it was over, June Gilliland left first in one car to take her mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short of his house, a car approached in the wrong lane. Gilliland swerved but could not escape. In the crash, Gilliland was killed, along with his son Raymond, 15, and his daughter Julia, 12. The three younger girls were badly injured...