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Today, auto dealers themselves are sponsoring consorcios, and even manufacturers are getting into the act. Months ago, Max Pearce, General Managing Director of Willys-Overland do Brazil, began to notice the spectacular successes some local dealers were having with consorcios, wondered if the scheme might not be worth trying on a nationwide basis. Last month the company kicked off a consorcio campaign expected to generate communal purchases of 2,500 cars a month by 1969. Skeptical at first, João Lopes Coelho, director of a dealer-run lottery operation in Rio de Janeiro, lauds the whole idea as "typical...
...principal port of Haiphong, free of any interference by U.S. Seventh Fleet warships patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin. Most of the Russians' oil and machinery land on Haiphong's always crowded docks; even the nearby Chinese ship most of their aid to Haiphong rather than send it overland. Since February, there has been a change in the pattern of traffic at Haiphong; fewer Chinese ships are arriving and, as if by agreement between the two countries, more Soviet ships are taking their place. In what reflects a deepening crisis in the North's agriculture, the Russians...
...Several of their heavy machine guns predate World War II, and most of them have steel-rimmed wooden wheels. Since the Viet Cong are truck-poor, their Chinese 75-mm. recoilless rifle, which was designed for vehicle mounting, comes simply on two wheels so that it can be dragged overland manually. Then there are the even more rustic land mines, booby traps and Rube Goldberg-style gadgetry that the Viet Cong sometimes seem to prefer even to their newly acquired modern amenities. Not long ago, an American patrol near a 1st Air Cavalry base in the Central Highlands came across...
...jouncy, snub-nosed Jeep has been just plugging along. Developed by the old Willys-Overland Corp. for the U.S. War Department in 1940, the general purpose (hence, G.P. and finally Jeep) vehicle endeared itself to G.I.s and Army brass during World War II. "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare," General George C. Marshall grandiloquently called it. After the war, Willys found a still-brisk military demand for the Jeep, but ran into trouble on its passenger line, sold out to Kaiser...
...Willys-Overland is sinking $60 million into new 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...