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...model change has actually pushed Ford ahead of Opel and VW in medium-priced sales. Ford's low-priced Taunus ($1,417 for a four-door sedan), virtually unchanged since its introduction in 1962, is behind both the small Opel and VW's familiar beetle in sales, but it still accounts for 35% of Ford's German production...
...Lambretta motor scooter buzzed past the cops, parked across the street from the embassy. Moments later, a Renault Fregate sedan drove up, pulled up to the curb about four yards from the building. The driver got out, complained about having motor trouble. When a cop told him to move on because he was blocking traffic, he opened fire with a pistol. The Lambretta rider also began blasting away. The Saigon cops shot back; the car-driving terrorist was riddled, and the scooter rider fled for his life. One policeman fell, wounded in the stomach. Hearing the gunfire, embassy workers hurried...
...people less envious of West German opulence, has lately stepped up production of appliances and other consumer goods. For every 100 East German families, there are 45 TV sets, 23 washing machines and 21 refrigerators-far more than in any other Communist country. Quality remains doubtful. The tinny Wartburg sedan (price: 15,200 marks) is dubbed "Luther" by cynical East Germans because its performance reminds them of Luther's cry: "Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen...
...manifestoes, the most famous of which praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise primitive in a modern age; they tend to be corrosively colored, rank as a humus heap, and scornful...
...just as fast as the mythical Conformist Goodfellow. The pastor of the 2,200-member Wesley Methodist Church in Bloomington, Ill., Smith is a trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University, has a rich cherry-red rug in his office, drives a red Dodge convertible and aspires to own a Jaguar sedan. A few times a year he takes his blonde wife Betty, whom he married for "irrelevant reasons," to New York for a round of Broadway shows and dinner at Lu-chow's. The Smiths subscribe to Gourmet, "the magazine we dream...