Word: stolidness
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...Kurt Lotz, the elegant and imposing VW chairman. The line-up now stretches from sub-beetles to Mercedes-sized sedans. Auto Union's new Audi 100, an 80-h.p. model that sells for $2,223, has surprised Wolfsburg executives by competing strongly with the 411, VW's stolid, 68-h.p. entry in the medium-priced market. The basic beetle, which still accounts for nearly two of every three VW sales, is about to get some sportier company. In February, VW entered a joint development venture with Porsche; soon they will be producing a fast, mid-engine two-seater...
...runway can be seen a motley squadron of DC-6s, a C-46, a Super Constellation, and lately bigger but nonetheless obsolete C-97 stratofreighters, wheezing into readiness. Trucks dash up, hauling crates of food and medicines. Eventually, crews as varied as their airplanes - Swedes, Finns, Americans, a stolid Yorkshireman, a not so dour Scot - screech up in cars and climb aboard. One by one, at 20-minute intervals, the cargo planes lumber down the runway, turn northward toward the Nigerian coast. Late afternoon sunlight splashes on little blue and gold fish, the fuselage emblems of the interfaith airlift organized...
...mood is down-with-stolid-solidity. The most interesting sculptures seem to float and fly this year, more than ever before. They hang from the ceiling; they are transparent, pock-marked or filled with holes, marked by a lightness and informality of both profile and spirit. In the main gallery, the viewer's eye is carried roofward by a giant Alexander Calder mobile that sways like a living totem, then diverted by a gently teetering pair of silver spears by George Rickey. Against one wall, Eva Hesse has lined up a row of 30 glistening clear fiberglass half...
...alumni, which have long criticized Hayes for his stolid straightforward offenses, love the team's new mod look. It is doing daring things like passing on first down, but Woody insists that he has not changed his philosophy. He attributes the difference to the versatility of his players rather than a permanent change in tactics. "The alumni," he says, "can go straight to hell. We know more about the off-tackle play than anyone in football, and the only reason I like it is because it wins...
...John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He talks to his men as if they too were in the classroom. "You can't go out there with the idea that hippies are a problem," he lectures his men at roll call. "You can't stand there with a stolid countenance. Don't wait for them to break the ice. You have to initiate the communication...