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...novel. Jaimie's mother Christine (Joan Hackett) makes quite a nice living, thank you, running a small gallery on Madison Avenue. She and Jaimie are great chums until she meets a whimsical New York tour guide named Peter Simon (Robert Klein). Peter woos her by parking his Volkswagen bus on a wharf and regaling her with tales of his childhood, his parents and his aborted career in the Peace Corps. Soon they are wed, to the considerable distress of Jaimie, who begins to wage acts of astonishingly clever psychological warfare...
...quivered with anticipation. Despite the forceful command from Tricia Nixon Cox, it rained so hard that the whole thing had to be postponed for two hours. Besides her husband Edward Cox, among the aficionados were Otis Chandler, Candice Bergen, Paul Newman (who has a hotrod engine hidden beneath his Volkswagen's middle-class bustle) and Barry Goldwater (who arrived and departed via helicopter). For Tricia, a highlight of the day was awarding the trophy to Winner Roger McCluskey, who then planted a hearty kiss on her cheek. "She does look nice," admitted a model, admiring Tricia's sleeveless...
...than Union Carbide's Glad bags and Colgate-Palmolive's Baggies. Bisodol commercials trumpet its stomach-soothing effectiveness over Turns and Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying the possibility of naming Cadillac. Says K. & E. Chairman...
...imagination. She goes to a drive-in to think. Her first purchase when the six-figure movie and paperback money began coming in was a commodious secondhand station wagon: "For years I'd watched drive-in movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what dynamite looks like...
...banks and multinational corporations. Occasionally they try to turn a quick profit by capitalizing on oscillations in the value of one currency or another. But usually they are merely trying to protect a routine sale, loan or investment from loss due to an unexpected dip in some currency. Volkswagen, for example, takes in billions of dollars each year from U.S. sales. When the dollar quivered at the start of last summer's currency crisis, VW executives reportedly transferred as much as $500 million into more stable German marks. The move was only prudent; the dollar's value relative...