Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CYPRUS Death at High Noon One sunny morning last week, a Land-Rover carrying seven Greek Cypriots bounced up the road to the tiny village of Ayios Sozomenos. Though only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
...south from San Antonio to Floresville. You turn left on the road to Pleasanton. You go exactly seven miles west out this road. There, at exactly 9:45 a.m., a car will be parked at the side of the road. It will either be a Pontiac or a Land Rover. The Governor will...
...Both Bundys come in for a good measure of criticism, McGeorge more than Bill. Because of his deep involvement in foreign policy and his closeness to the President, State Department types call McGeorge "the usurper" and "Rover boy." Three years in Washington have mellowed and humbled him somewhat-he was particularly shaken by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a project he backed wholeheartedly-but some acquaintances still complain of his intellectual arrogance, and one official refers to him as "the coldest fish around." At the Pentagon, Bill is occasionally accused of a lack of imagination and a Brahmin disdain...
...since World War II has a British automaker risked so much on one model. Rover, which last year earned $3,000,000 on estimated sales of $75 million, borrowed $30 million from banks to build a new plant next to its old one in the Midlands town of Solihull. The new plant has tripled Rover's capacity to 800 cars per week. Yet, because it is equipped with automated machines and computers, Rover has had to add only 400 more employees to its force of 11,500 workers...
Priced at $3,540 in Britain (including a $615 purchase tax), the new Rover sells for less than the cheapest Jaguar, and on the Continent should be highly competitive with the small Mercedes and Citroën. Rover executives worry whether the 2000's flashy good looks will steal sales from its staid older brothers, which are still in production. But why worry? At the London show, Rover salesmen have already collected enough orders for the new car to keep Rover's plants running at full speed for an entire year...