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Another troubled company is British Leyland, the greatest monument to the merger-brokering attempts of the former Labor government. The company, which is barely profitable, still offers too many models, and cannot produce enough of them to meet rising demand. British Leyland's market share is declining in the face of imports. Problems also afflict Germany's combine of Volkswagen and Audi NSU Auto Union. The basic trouble has been the declining popularity of the Beetle-in the first ten months of this year sales of Volkswagens in the U.S. have fallen to 398,000, compared with...
...history of the Spanish Riding School, where the Lippizaner horses have always been trained, down through the centuries to its present site in Vienna. Erich Lessing's photographs are no substitute for watching the massed horses moving to the strains of Mozart, but this book is a monument to the disciplined beauty that classical horsemanship can achieve...
...downtown Milan. Thirteen people were killed and four died later of injuries. A few minutes later in Rome, another bomb damaged the main office of the National Bank of Labor, injuring 14 persons. That same afternoon, two bombs blew pieces of marble off Rome's Victor Emmanuel monument; three pedestrians were hurt. Police in the two cities promptly went into action. Three days later in Milan, they arrested Pietro Valpreda, 37, a sometime ballet dancer and member of an anarchist group called "March 22" (after the 1968 rebellion of French students at Nanterre University); seven people affiliated with...
...after-Coca-Cola crowd: the same long-haired young people who had marched in the streets of Washington, by-passing both the Lincoln Monument and the tear gas in Du Pont Circle. They were applauding for a good try. "It takes a lot to laugh, but it takes a train...
Christmas decorations. In Los Angeles, which gets a $35 million share, Mayor Sam Yorty wants to use some of the money to build a huge maintenance center to house such municipal property as police cars, printing presses and school supplies; critics call it a "monument to the mayor...