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...German, French or English, he makes many colleagues feel drab and parochial. He also angers some executives by breaking ranks with the rest of the industry, as when he doubled the warranty period on German Fords to a full year with unlimited mileage. Critics cannot deny the remarkable U-turn he brought off at German Ford, but some prophesy that he will have trouble in his new truck job. "It could be his death chair," says one colleague at German Ford almost wistfully. But that seems most unlikely; Lutz's admirers are forecasting that he will become head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: A Dashing High-Speed U-Turn | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Streaking along the ocean shore at 190 m.p.h., the Ferrari is a red blur against the blue, a waft of 500-h.p. combustion that arrives on the ebb of a parabolic whine. Screeching through a U-turn, the car speeds toward Ocean Boulevard. Seconds ahead of a pack that includes the cars of Mario Andretti and Austria's Niki Lauda, the Ferrari roars down the main thoroughfare past three porno theaters, two derelict hotels and assorted pawnshops. It will be a long afternoon for 36-year-old Swiss Racer Clay Regazzoni. Another hairpin right will bring him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Road At Long Beach | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...some drunkard passed us, hoping to get a ride back to the University of Nevada. We were getting close to town when a Mustang glided up out of the dark on the other side of the road, went about 20 yards past us and then made a smooth eerie U-turn and slid up right along side...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Riding on the Blacktop Rivers | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

...bearded vet stopped for a moment because it took all his concentration to use his two ski poles with small runners on them and his one good leg to ease around the U-turn in the line...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Mr. Ford's Holiday | 1/16/1975 | See Source »

...from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair of plainclothesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Annals of the Crime | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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