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...student revolt spread out of the Latin Quarter and gathered supporters across the country, Prendergast called for reinforcements. London Correspondent Keith Johnson made it to Paris as fast as he could-via Brussels and a poky rented Volkswagen. He began his new beat with a ten-mile hike with worker demonstrators. His day's outing ended in the Latin Quarter, where, along with Paris Correspondent Roger Stone, he dodged police clubs and flying cobblestones. "I always said Paris was a great city to walk in," said Johnson, "but this is ridiculous...
...recruits home and shows that to the spoiled belongs the victory. Ulysses and Michelangelo, now maimed and babbling, carry with them a trunkful of treasure. The loot is a lampoon of Western culture: hundreds of picture postcards that juxtapose Ava Gardner's face and an Ingres nude, Volkswagen factories and the pyramids. In the end, the soldiers are themselves consumed by the anarchic "peace" that follows victory in which sound trucks thread the littered streets blaring, "Our enemies are democrats, Marxists, Jews...
...space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort. And it can park, headon, where even a Volkswagen would fear to tread...
...vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
...only problem these days comes in finding an old VW. The price of scrapped beetles has risen from $100 last year to as much as $500 now-and in many places there are no salvageable wrecks left. Demand has reached well beyond junkyards and used-car lots. Volkswagen of America itself is weighing the pros and cons of manufacturing the short chassis. But many individuals, particularly in California, have discovered another source of supply. Instead of searching out and buying an old VW, they just steal one off the streets-with deplorable impunity. The angry owner of a missing blue...