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Another Eva. Perón's great misadventure began shortly before midnight when a Mercedes sedan pulled out of his underground garage. Inside were Jorge Antonio, Perón's financial adviser, and Delia Parodi, a Peronista spitfire from Buenos Aires; the guard waved them briskly through the gate. Then, out of sight a few miles up the road, Jorge Antonio stopped the car and bustied around to the trunk. And who popped out? Of course. Even with a hat tugged over his eyebrows and a vicuña scarf pulled up tightly around his chin, the sportily...
...France's Simca, an Italian-born onetime Fiat salesman who set up his own factory in France in 1934, went on to become the enfant terrible of the French auto industry by taking over third place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
...have closed in on Volkswagen, increased their combined share of the German market from 32% in 1962 to 41% last year. In Britain, Ford has captured 31% of this year's market, a new high. Ford is invading Italy, too, last week introduced the Anglia Torino, a small sedan that will be assembled and sold in Italy...
More than 40,000 West Berliners jammed the drafty, bomb-wracked Sportpalast last week, paying $100,000 for the privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...
...specifically fingered. To be on the safe side, Mission Chief Colonel Henry Choate, 47, came by the next morning to give him a lift to work. Even so, the kidnaping took only 20 seconds. As Smolen was walking to Choate's car at 8 a.m., a 1958 Chevrolet sedan raced up, and out popped two hoods. Leveling a submachine gun at Smolen, they hustled him into the Chevy. Colonel Choate started out of his car, saw what was happening, and took off, high-hurdling through fenced yards until he was clear...