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...replace the Beetle and other slow-selling models, Volkswagen and its subsidiary Audi NSU have introduced five new cars in the past 3 ½ years. Among them: the Rabbit-called the Golf in Germany, where it is currently the top-selling car. A success on both sides of the Atlantic, the Rabbit will be offered in Europe late this year with a 45-h.p. diesel engine. Since the oil crisis, diesel-powered cars, such as the bigger Mercedes and French-built Peugeot, have grown in popularity in Europe, largely because they use cheaper fuel, and less...
...this particular rabbit had a fast line of back talk, a keen sense of irony and an indomitable lust for survival. Cartoon heroes, if you think about it, tend to be victims. Either that or insufferable, like Mickey Mouse. Only Bugs Bunny managed to triumph in his struggles against an assortment of splenetic aggressors without ever getting smug...
...wife Teresa and one-year-old daughter Andrea. Dewey arrived at Harvard in fall 1969 from a rural area ten miles outside Boise, Id. ("Out in the sticks," he admits with a chuckle.) "I got here and just hated the place. At home I could go pheasant and rabbit and deer hunting of fish and catch 20-inch trout. But here there are no mountains, the air is dirty, and you can't see the stars at night," he says...
...latest knee in the consumer's groin weren't more than enough, the Postal Service is now winding up for the rabbit punch. Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar says if it is to survive what he calls "a financial crisis of serious proportions," the USPS may have to end Saturday mail delivery, eliminate special delivery service, and slow down delivery. Congress, ever eager for false solutions, seems more inclined to abolish the corporation and return to the old politically-controlled Post Office Department, forgetting that the good old days weren't much better. After all, Congress set up the corporation...
...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...