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...single product could take credit for West Germany's "economic miracle," it would be the Volkswagen Beetle. Since the start of production 36 years ago, 18 million copies of the inelegant rear-engine car designed by Ferdinand Porsche have been sold round the world; yet now the world's joyride with the Beetle appears to have stalled, so thoroughly that production has ground to a temporary halt...
Worldwide sales of Volkswagenwerk AG have slumped 21.6% so far this year, and officials openly predict that the company in 1974 will suffer the first full-year loss in its history. (Profits in 1973 were $40 million; at their peak in 1966 they totaled $151 million.) Last week Volkswagen closed down most of its West German plants and gave 45,000 workers a two-week furlough with partial...
...subject called Who's Who on Texas Highways & Bi-ways. A dermatologist selected SKIN for his plate, a surgeon chose CUT UP, and a dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles LUV BUG, V-DBL-U and EL BUG. Ernest Campbell of Dallas could not resist SOUP, and Eli H. Lipton of the same city coyly selected T BAGS. Clergymen have embraced such identifications as 4 JESUS and TRY GOD. OOOOPS was the plate that...
...first, it is a very bumpy ride over territory that is long past familiar. Flashing blue lights of a squad car; cops milling about the scene of a crime, being both professional and a little delicate about the corpse on the floor of the Volkswagen; a police chief (Cliff Robertson) of a small town, pretty much stymied as he is pressed for a quick solution; friends and relatives of the victim, hysterical with grief, baffled over the brutality and arbitrariness of the killing. Then the film makers play their trump and pull themselves out of the hole...
...room, board, books and $15 a month. In fact, many prospects report receiving offers of much more. Offensive Tackle Marvin Powell, now a freshman at U.S.C., says some of the recruiters who came to his home town of Fayetteville, N.C., last year promised to buy him "anything from a Volkswagen to a Cadillac." According to Powell-who says U.S.C.'s offer was limited to the chance to play on a winning football team-alumni from other schools "were always slipping me a $100 bill when we shook hands...