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...emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four: a '36 Dodge coupé, a '41 Dodge pickup, a '50 Ford convertible, a '51 Chevrolet sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: U.S. TEST DIRECTOR | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...Target. Virtually excluded from the Common Market countries by high tariffs, both Saab and Volvo concentrate their foreign sales effort in the U.S. Volvo sold 12,787 cars in the U.S. last year at prices ranging from $2,295 for a sedan to $3,995 for a sports model, surged from tenth place among imported cars to fourth.* Saab, which sells mostly in the East at prices ranging from $1,895 to $2,790, moved from 19th to 17th with 4,169 sales-exactly on target with Managing Director Holm's plan to sell from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Surging Swedes | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...than just a combat machine. They respected it as a combination of power and ideology. The close connection between French politics and the French armed forces was encouraged, even after the disaster of 1870, when it first became evident that both had suffered a near-mortal decline. Indeed, after Sedan, French militarism developed the assertiveness that the fear of weakness produces; and the Army's hold on the popular imagination was not destroyed even by its defeat in the Dreyfus Affair...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: What the French Army Needs: A Fighting Man's Ideology | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...Bend's Studebaker-Packard plant, strikebound for three weeks. As pickets huddled to keep warm one day last week, a black Mercedes-Benz picked a path toward the main gate. At the wheel was Studebaker's Hollywood-handsome president, Sherwood Harry Egbert, 41. Pickets closed around his sedan, refused to let Egbert through unless he showed a union pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The President & the Picket | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Heads Down. It was at this point that a car arrived with U.S. Consul Lewis Hoffacker and Dodd. Sizing up the situation, Hoffacker jumped out, grabbed Smith and hauled him semiconscious into the sedan. "Lie on the floor and keep your heads down!" Hoffacker yelled to Smith and Dodd; then he gunned his motor and drove away at full speed before the confused soldiers could stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Dinner for the Senator | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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