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Blunted Lead. Civilian businessmen sometimes find that competing against companies in which OYAK has an interest is like standing in the way of a cavalry charge. Last year, for example, a plant near Istanbul that is owned jointly by Italy's Fiat Motor Co. and Turkish Tycoon Vehbi Koc began producing cars for the Turkish market. Construction of an auto plant owned jointly by France's Renault and OYAK was well behind schedule, and it seemed that Fiat cars would gain a long sales lead-until the fund swung into action. After arranging the specifications so that other...
...detective follows her on his motor scooter from double-feature horror films to the dolphin pond in Windsor Park, he becomes infatuated. He is something of a pixy himself, a regular Zorba the Dick. He consumes huge quantities of yogurt, munches on endless macaroons, and makes a lot of funny faces. Now it is the wife who is unaccountably enchanted...
...prepared the Vega for its run was doused with beer. The small knot of men had every reason to celebrate. Their little car had just traveled some 150 miles at a respectable highway speed, although under its hood there was nothing more than a 40-horsepower electric motor...
...Winnebago people because they believe that it has been caused largely by stock-market confusion. President John V. Hanson, son of the founder, claims that investors have been worried by reports of disappointing shipments in the "mobile home" industry, and have got that mixed up with Winnebago's "motor home" business. The name is about the only similarity. Mobile homes, despite the term, are usually towed to one spot and left there to serve as a family's permanent dwelling. Motor homes, also called recreational vehicles and sometimes "fun machines," are designed to whisk campers to national parks...
...vehicles enable campers to travel in comfort and yet avoid the rising costs of motel rooms and restaurant meals. Recreational vehicles range from ingenious $350 pop-up tent trailers to deluxe $4,000 travel trailers pulled by automobiles and $20,000 self-propelled motor homes. Buyers tend to be about 45 years old, earn at least $12,000 a year and spend an average of 34 days a year traveling...