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While budding Juan Fangios may claim fantastic records, the aggressive Volkswagen owner can expect to reach Sarah Lawrence in just over three hours, and New York a half hour later...
Private industry is also stepping up its spending. Volkswagen is laying out $100 million to double its plant capacity, and Ford is investing $30 million to enable its truck and tractor factory to assemble automobiles as well. Alcoa has set up a pilot company as the first step toward establishing a $51 million aluminum works. The most hopeful investment field is in petrochemicals, where the government recently broke the long-held monopoly of state-owned Petrobras to attract more efficient private companies. Some ten corporations, including Jersey Standard, Gulf, and Phillips Petroleum, are now actively studying the investment possibilities. Brazil...
...industry disagrees about the desirability of the new trend. Says Fairfax Cone: "It's bad manners, and I can't believe the public will stand for it." The rivals who get named do not always feel bad about it. MG shows its sports sedan beside a Volkswagen, asks the question: "Popularity contest: Who won?" (MG's answer: In a poll of 28,000 people, Volkswagen, which sells 68.2 cars to MG's one in the U.S., was preferred by three out of five people, a ratio that the less known MG found flattering.) Volkswagen...
...traffic cop stuck a couple of $3 tickets on his Volkswagen when it was parked in a space reserved for Government officials, and Washington's U.S. Attorney David C. Acheson, 45, son of the former Secretary of State, promptly sent the tickets to be fixed. "Since I am a Government official," said he with a combination of hauteur and logic, "it would seem to me that the place was reserved for me." He had not reckoned on Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, 64, a man of many scattered parts, who is known to headline writers...
...schwarz and rot was a two-mark piece, worth about 50?, and the beverages were local wine, fruit juice or the neighborhood mineral water, Apollinaris, because no burgher or Hausfrau seemed excited enough to drown his sorrows or celebrate his winnings with Sekt before turning the family Volkswagen back to Bonn, Düsseldorf or Cologne...