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...more than enough to wipe out its losses of the previous two years, and that it is resuming dividend payments, which were suspended after 1973. And last week Schmücker journeyed to Pennsylvania to check on the development of a new plant that will begin turning out the Rabbit early next year-making Volkswagen the only foreign manufacturer to build cars...
Schmücker's predecessor, Rudolf Leiding, tried to move in all three directions; in particular, he began phasing out production of the Beetle (only 200 a day are being made now) and shifting to the Rabbit and the sporty Scirocco. But Germany's tough labor unions are represented on VW's board, and the governments of the West German Federal Republic and the state of Lower Saxony own 40% of the company's stock. The labor and government interests formed an alliance that bitterly opposed any moves likely to cost jobs...
Recapturing Volkswagen's former lead in the U.S. import market may be a more difficult proposition. The Rabbit faces plenty of subcompact competition-not only from other imports but also from new small cars to be brought out soon by Chrysler and American Motors. Some, ironically, will be powered by VW engines. One selling point for the Rabbits that will be made in Volkswagen's Pennsylvania plant: about 20% will be equipped with lightweight, fuel-stingy diesel engines, the first large-scale introduction of diesels to the American market...
...private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree on a joint statement about the crisis over their breakfast at the Harvard Club; the silence of civil libertarians when the TPF went into the Rabbit Inn with clubs swinging; the bizarre and absurd posturing by the Boston Globe, including an article in which veterans of the anti-war and civil rights movements explain civil disobedience is morally just only when the cause is righteous...
...young rodent hopped to life in the pages of a cautionary tale. His name was Peter, and he was to become the most celebrated rabbit since the Easter Bunny. Now, upon his 75th birthday, the little creature betrays no signs of age-or, for that matter, maturity. Nor do Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Tom Kitten or any of the other animals in the watercolor menagerie of Beatrix Potter. The writer was a victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments...