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Company officials also note that the Datsun name is meaningless. Dat, the word for rabbit in Japanese, comes from the initials of the company's three chief financial backers. It was originally lengthened to Datson or "son of rabbit." But the word son had an unlucky connotation in Japanese, which was seemingly proved correct when a typhoon hit a Datson plant in 1933. Therefore, the company changed the marketing name to Datsun. Executives at Nissan are convinced that despite the worries of their dealers, a Datsun by any other name will sell as swiftly as ever...
...even that mark was destined to fall as the two old and unfriendly rivals continued their game of "Can you top this?" Just two days after Ovett exacted his revenge, Coe returned to the track, this time in Brussels. With his familiar Zurich "rabbit," American Tom Byers, setting the pace, Coe took more than a full second off Ovett's newborn mark, cutting through the balmy night in 3 min. 47.33 sec. As he had done in Zurich, Coe unleashed a terrific closing kick, taking the lead with some 500 meters (547 yds.) left. When it was over...
...fooled. The scooped-out gimcrack is nothing more than a TV antenna. It is quite a bit more, however, than the rabbit-ears atop the family console...
...Afro twist. Eyes rolling, hands fluttering, laughter spilling up and over, she can jolly an audience as nobody else. But watch out for the little sting afterward! Uncle Remus is not safe in her company. When she turns into a frog, warning of the approach of Br'er Rabbit, lily pads a mile away tremble at Torrence's harrumph...
...more m.p.g. in combined city and highway driving. A test model will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September. At present, U.S. law requires automakers to have a fleet average fuel economy of only 22 m.p.g., which will rise to 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985. The VW Rabbit diesel, with 42 m.p.g. city and 56 m.p.g. highway, is the most fuel-efficient car in production now available in the U.S. Several foreign manufacturers produce cars with even better mileage, but these are not for sale...