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...hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City...
...facilities, will make a new line of Renaults by 1968. Ford is introducing its first passenger car, a version of the Galaxie, in February at a cost of $30 million. General Motors will put up $52 million and also enter Brazil's passenger-car market, probably with its Opel. Even Japan's tiny Toyota is planning at least $5,000,000 worth of expansion...
...surprising surge of lower-tagged imports, which are racing 27% ahead of last year and should easily crack the record of 614,000 sold in 1959. In the first nine months of 1966, Volkswagen spurted from 277,000 sales to 308,000, while G.M.'s "German Opel climbed from fifth place to second among imports, with sales of 25,000, followed by Sweden's Volvo, Britain's MG and Japan's Datsun. The Japanese cars are rising fast: Toyota is now the second best-selling import in California, where the Japanese are driving hard prior...
...automakers from 20 countries last week displayed their wares at the 53rd Paris Motor Show, which is Europe's biggest, safety came second. To be sure, the U.S.-owned entries, such as General Motors' West German Opel and English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover...
Married. Brigitte Bardot, 31, prototype cat for Europe's sex kittens; and Gunter Sachs von Opel, 33, heir to a West German ball-bearing fortune and one of the Continent's best-known hedonists; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...