Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair...
...gesture toward the House, the Senate Appropriations Committee gave President Johnson a much needed legislative victory. Not only did it give him more than double (to $537 million) the sum that the House had reluctantly voted for the model-cities program; it also approved his $40 million request for rent subsidies, which had been killed in tow by the House. Though both measures must still be approved by the full Senate, there is a good chance that both will emerge intact for a fifty-fifty compromise with the House...
...result is the "Motown sound" -basically the Negro rhythm-and-blues style that has captured a vast white audience in recent years, but now stamped into slick model lines and given the hard chrome gloss that Gordy used to fit into autos. "This is just something we feel and therefore produce," says Gordy. "We've never stopped to think about...
...wind tunnels than of style-minded designers. Later this month, RO 80s will start rolling off the assembly line at NSU's Neckarsulm plant near Stuttgart at the rate of 50 a day. They will be priced at $3,537, just below the prestigious Mercedes 250 S model. "The German mentality demands that a status car carry a high price-if not, it loses much of its prestige," says Von Heydekampf...
...model T.T., the Spider and the Prinz 4, a little bug below Volkswagen price and power level, have a mere 3.2% share of the domestic market and 6.4% of German exports. In the first seven months of 1967, NSU car sales dropped 27% from the same period last year. Volkswagen too was feeling the pinch: in July both Opel (G.M.) and Taunus (Ford) outsold the Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were...