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Landerman went to the Soviet Union last summer with the Experiment in International Living, and was arrested when the Volkswagen bus he was driving struck and killed a Soviet citizen...
Landerman, who went to the Soviet Union last summer as a member of a student tourist group, is now the only American imprisoned in the USSR. He was arrested Aug. 15 after a Volkswagen but he was driving struck and killed a Soviet citizen near Minsk...
...mettle in Germany. The car: the Opel Kadett, a compact made by General Motors' German subsidiary in a new $250 million plant in the Ruhr, which G.M. feels will be more profitable if it produces at a higher volume. The Kadett's good looks have already dented Volkswagen's sales in Germany (TIME, Nov. 29), and G.M. hopes that the same thing will happen in the U.S. The company sold Opels through Buick once before, but dropped them in 1961 after it brought out its own compacts. Now, since its compacts have grown bigger in size...
...karts to the snorting monsters of Indianapolis. "You can't get confused," says Gurney. "You can even yell at the other drivers." At the Bahamas Speed Weeks, while martini glasses tinkled and bountiful blondes chased their heroes through the pits, Gurney took the wheel of a bright orange Volkswagen and challenged all comers in a 103-mile race. His car was a 1956 sedan with 250,000 miles on the speedometer. It was, in fact, his personal car in Nassau-and his wife fretted nervously while inspectors stripped it apart to make sure that no slick mechanic had installed...
Even in a Volkswagen, class tells. Gurney was all the way into the first corner before he shut the door of his sedan. Only once each lap-on a particularly tricky corner-did he bother to touch his brakes. The rest of the time, his VW was flat out. "You've got to keep the revs up there and use them," he explained. The pace was enough to discourage all but the stoutest-hearted competitors. "I tried to run his kind of race," said one, "but I didn't have the nerve." At the finish, Gurney...