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...well as handling other Nation assignments (he is the author of seven cover stories). A Harvard alumnus ('63, magna cum laude), Morrow has written poetry and plays, acted, worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington and once spent nearly a year touring the U.S. in an old Volkswagen bus. According to McManus, "Morrow has the highest velocity vocabulary of any writer on TIME. But even his most recherché words are so exquisitely targeted that they often cannot be changed. Now we only allow him three zingers per issue...
...make its subcompacts quite good enough or cheap enough to win over the majority of import buyers. A stripped-down, two-door Vega, for example, sells for $2,091 (including federal excise tax and dealer preparation charges) and a Pinto for $1,944, v. $1,899 for the basic Volkswagen. The subcompacts, though, are small and cheap enough to attract many motorists who might buy bigger U.S.-made cars if they felt more flush, but whose desire for economy has been sharpened by the bite of the 1970 recession and continuing inflation. A G.M. poll of early Vega buyers disclosed...
Gizzi had no qualms when he bought a supposedly overhauled 1958 Volkswagen van from Russell Hinman, who operates a Texaco service station in Westville, NJ. Though Hinman made the $400 sale on his own as an individual, Gizzi claimed that Texaco's advertising led him to believe that it stood behind the sale. Besides, Hinman seemed to be the paradigm of skill that Texaco proudly refers to in its slogan, "Trust your car to the man who wears the Texaco star...
...affected was Austrian-born Franz Stangl, the former commandant of Poland's Treblinka concentration camp. Found working in a Volkswagen factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1967, Stangl was extradited and two weeks ago was convicted by a West German court of sending at least 400,000 Jews to their deaths. Stangl, 62, will probably serve 20 years. If he is still alive after that, he will have to stand trial in Austria on charges of operating a Nazi euthanasia center, where 15,000 mentally and physically crippled people were put to death...
Ronald Hughes, the blond, bushy-bearded 250-pounder who had never tried a case before, drove into the mountains north of Los Angeles to soak and think in some hot springs. According to two friends, heavy rains mired their Volkswagen in mud; his friends hitchhiked out, while Hughes decided to stay. As the rains continued, the wilderness area was evacuated. Campers had seen Hughes walking in the rugged terrain, and the Volkswagen was later found with some trial transcripts in it, but no Hughes...