Word: opels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frame, unembellished by either a pectoral cross or episcopal ring. His book-cluttered residence is staffed only by volunteer students; nearby nuns send in his meals. He spends much of the time each week rocketing around the dusty roads of his diocese in a little Opel, saying Mass in homes of poor villagers. Méndez Arceo even calls himself a Zapatista, after the area's favorite native son, Peasant Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata...
...this year's show, Volkswagen introduced a four-door 1600 model sedan that will sell for $3,733 v. $2,666 for "the beetle." Similarly, General Motors showed off the Opala, its first made-in-Brazil sedan, a cross between the U.S. Chevy Nova and the German Opel. Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where taxes are lower. Ford's trade-up entry is the compact Corcel ($3,436). The highest-priced car at the show is the Brazilian Ford...
...course, there is also the desire for prestige. Until now, the Big Three have been trying to fill the size and price specifications with their own foreign-built cars, notably Ford's English-made Cortina, Chrysler's made-in-France Simca, and G.M.'s German-made Opel, the next best-selling import after Volkswagen...
...clergy swear allegiance to the government, and arrested those who refused. But now thousands of priests who were forced to work in factories and on farms have returned to their flocks. A certain amount of private business is tolerated. Jerry Herdglotz, 47, for example, now drives his own Opel Olympia sedan as a private entrepreneur, makes $250 a month v, $150 that he used to earn working for the state cab company...
Indeed, about the only grey area in an otherwise cheery outlook is foreign competition, which continues to cut into Detroit's market. The Big Four have not retaliated with minimodels of their own, but plans are on the drawing boards. Meanwhile, the invaders-led by Volkswagen, Opel and Toyota-are expected to sell 900,000 cars this year, up 119,500 from...