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Astro Couch. The foreign cars have obviously gotten the message of Ford's Mustang: a sports car is now a family car. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works showed a hot little $2,500 sedan, designed especially for the U.S. market.* Britain's Jaguar introduced its XKE 2 + 2, nine inches longer than the two-passenger model, which it otherwise resembles. It has a minimal back seat that can accommodate two people in a pinch, costs $6,070. Aston-Martin went even further with a four-passenger DB 6 that has a full back seat and sells...
Born 46 years ago in Russia, Slavik (real name: Vyacheslav Vasiliev) is married to the fashion director of Elle, drives about Paris à la folie from one decorating job to the next in his new Alfa Giulia super sedan. He started out as an industrial designer, but really made his mark when he concocted Pub Renault, a snack bar in Renault's auto showrooms. The booths resemble antique car seats, waitresses can be summoned by a brass klaxon, and the menu ranges from Renault's new Caravelle coupe ($2,300) to buttermilk...
...last week, the phone rang in the big white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...years ago, three East Berlin students donned homemade Russian uniforms, doctored a car to look like a Soviet military sedan and calmly drove through a checkpoint in the Communist Wall, unchallenged by the border guards. The story of the ingenious escape obviously got around, for last week West Berliners were chuckling over a similar stunt pulled off a fortnight ago with the help of American uniforms...
...while seating Red China, and contained a barrage of proposals for a revolutionary overhaul of the U.N. What Peking wanted was to wreck the U.N. Would it accept anything less? After last week's tie vote, a Red Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong sniffed that even "were a sedan chair with eight men employed to carry China into the U.N., China still would...