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...Until August. Because of the bigger demand for used cars, there are fewer bargains to be had. Prices are up slightly from a year ago even though there are more cars for sale, and the hottest used seller is the car that also leads the new-auto field: Chevrolet. Volkswagen also ranks high as a used car; last week at a wholesale auto auction, the place where the trade sets its prices, a 1960 VW carried a wholesale price of $1,080 v. $1,000 for a 1960 Ford Galaxie that when new cost $1,000 more than...
Brenner and Erhard scheduled a meet ing in an attempt to head off the strike before it spreads to the heavily industrialized Ruhr, where workers have already voted for a strike. Meanwhile, Volkswagen, Opel and Ford warned that they will have to close down this week because of a shortage of supplies. Unless Erhard can find some way to keep a wage settlement within reasonable bounds, the German miracle is in trouble; 10 million other German workers have already put in new wage claims...
Olle and Barbro Stahl live in Stockholm's working-class Stora Essingen District. Every morning Olle, 32, kisses Barbro goodbye at the door of their flat and drives his Volkswagen to the city's Vantor parish church, where he is a curate. Barbro, 30, spends an hour or so with her son Krister and then goes across her garden to the Essinge parish church, where she is assistant pastor...
Four members of the Harvard Debate Council returned to Cambridge by plane Saturday night after a disastrous week's trip to Northwestern University. During the week they lost not only the tournament but the Debate Council's ramshackle 1959 Volkswagen bus, which was destroyed in a crack-up on the New York Thruway early Wednesday morning...
...Johnson Motor Lines-one of the biggest U.S. truck fleets-tested two pilot models for a year, then asked for changes from windshield wipers to heaters. It was partly because Bell Telephone, the world's biggest commercial truck customer (8,800 purchased a year), wanted a Volkswagen-styled side-door compact truck that Ford and Chevy two years ago produced their copies of the Volkswagen compact. But for the most part, truck buyers give radical design changes a chilly reception, prefer gradual improvements on tried-and-tested trucks. As a result, the industry is moving away from the annual...