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...charge of this transformation is Rudolf Leiding, 59, a onetime repair-shop manager who became chairman of Volkswagenwerk three years ago. Though 5,500 Beetles had continued rolling off the assembly lines each day until last week's shutdown, Leiding has been gradually shifting some of Volkswagen's eggs out of the Beetle basket. Volkswagen's subsidiary, Audi NSU Auto Union AG, formed in 1969, now offers medium-priced and expensive (up to $5,360) sedans, most notably the Audi 80, called the Fox in the U.S. Sales of these cars are rising faster than anything else...
...January 6, 1970, a group of tenants and students escorted Ebert on a "walking tour" of the neighborhood, and he said he agreed in principle with the tenants' demands for immediate repair of safety hazards and a rent cut-back. On January 18, over 40 students and faculty staged a "mill-in" in Ebert's vacant office to protest his failure to "act positively" on the demands. The next day, Ebert announced his refusal to intervene with the Corporation on behalf of the tenants...
...effort" that would guarantee "Harvard and its institutional affiliates...the expansion of facilities that they feel is necessary" and guarantee RTH "the security of shelter and stabilization and strengthening of the entire community that they feel is necessary." RTH called on Harvard to maintain the existing housing in good repair until the University could provide housing at affordable rents. The tenants specifically proposed that Harvard build this relocation housing on the 10-acre Convent site, with "RTH and/or their designee" as "sponsor and developer...
...elderly woman, her apron stained with the morning's chores, is on her knees under the kitchen sink, banging away at a clogged pipe. "If this damned sink gets stopped up one more time..." she whispers angrily, thinking of her husband's disappointment when he returns from the repair shop to find that she has not yet prepared his usual big Sunday lunch. And she was going to try out a new pancake recipe...
Other business deductions claimed by Nixon but questioned by the committee ranged from $22.50 for cleaning a rug in Pat's bathroom at San Clemente to $432.84 to repair the estate's ice machine to $3,331.56 for depreciation of a $4,816.84 table that he bought for the Cabinet Room in the White House. Among the other disallowed items were $5,391.43 spent from the White House guest fund on food, beverages, decorations and unspecified rentals for a masked ball given by Tricia in 1969, and $23,576 spent from the fund to feed the First Family...