Word: saab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainly in chemistry and anthropology at a congeries of colleges (Cornell, Carnegie Tech, Chicago) during and after World War II. To earn a living in the lean years, Vonnegut, who is the son and grandson of prosperous, German-stock architects in Indianapolis, has worked as a crime reporter, a Saab dealer, and flack for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. "I started to write," he recalls, "because I hated that job so much." Schenectady keeps turning up in his books as a grim, upstate New York town called Ilium...
...take markets away from existing U.S. lower-priced models. To reduce their own chances of loss, some foreign producers will send bigger and fancier models to the U.S. Later this year, for example, VW will begin shipping its four-door Audi (U.S. price: around $4,000). Sweden's Saab will soon begin importing a new Maverick-sized car. "If Detroit can come into our market," says Stuart Perkins, head of Volkswagen of America, "we can go into theirs." It should be quite a fight...
...different countries. Among them: Chrysler International's controller, Fiat's man in Cairo, the assistant to the president of Spain's Barreiros Diesel, officials from France's Credit Lyonnais, Britain's Rolls-Royce, the U.S.'s IBM and Sweden's Saab...
...discussing purchase of 16 Mach-2.1 English Electric Lightnings and a flock of advanced-model Hawker Hunters. Meantime, Venezuela was suddenly losing its love for its F-86 Sabre jets, which it bought from the U.S. five years ago. So it, too, was dickering-with Sweden for 20 Saab...
...willing to sell us the planes we need," shrugged Peru's President Fernando Balaunde Terry, "we will buy them from any other country willing to sell to us." And possibly cheaper, since Europe is hungry for the business. The Swedes are offering the Saab Draken fighter for some $700,000, compared with $900,000 for Northrop's slower (Mach-1.3) F-5 Freedom Fighter (see U.S. BUSINESS). Brazil claims that five-year terms are the best it can get in the U.S.; the British are offering ten years. As a result, the Brazilians ordered ten Avro-748s from...