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...pioneers include State Chairman Clarke Reed, a Greenville businessman; W.D. ("Billy") Mounger, a wealthy contributor from Jackson; and Swan Yerger, a Jackson attorney. The new breed is led by Gil Carmichael, a Meridian Volkswagen dealer who ran remarkable, but losing races for Senator and Governor. Following tradition, the two factions agreed in April that the delegation would cast all of its 30 votes as a unit, based on a majority vote among all 60 members...
...Paris, where Saint Laurent and Berge occupy a splendiferous two-story garden apartment on the Left Bank, the elegantly tailored Yves drives himself to work each morning in a dark blue Volkswagen Beetle convertible. (Berge, as the business manager, goes to the office in a chauffeured Rolls.) Settled in at Y.S.L. headquarters, a huge, four-story town-house on Avenue Marceau that must rank as one of the world's most elegant office buildings, Yves hunkers over a small (3 ft. by 4 ft.) folding worktable that is as meticulously arranged...
...million profit in 1975. Ford's share of the German market is up to 14.9% (v. Opel's 17.9%), and it should rise further in the fall with introduction of the Fiesta, a minicar that will be made in Germany, Spain and Britain to compete with Volkswagen's Rabbit and similar cars (TIME, July 12). Though planning for the Fiesta was well advanced when Lutz joined Ford, the design incorporates some of his ideas...
...Volkswagen: gasoline and electric power (20 m.p.g.); 69.3 in. wide; 77 in. high; wheelbase 94.5 in.; a variation of the VW Microbus model. Five passengers; retractable step, sliding door...
Whether Pippo works in a Luxembourg steel mill, digs coal in Belgian mines or mans a Volkswagen assembly line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...