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...Studebaker (Feb. 2, 1953) spotted the small but growing opinion among auto experts that "the oversize car is on the way out, and car design may change fast in the next few years." TIME followed up with a cover story on the fast rise of Germany's small Volkswagen (Feb.15-1954...
...bikini-and-bistro living on Spain's Costa Brava, their elders brooded over the appalling deficiencies of Europe's younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with distaste: "By 19, most of them are satisfied little bourgeois." But the most plaintive and perceptive lament came from a parent in Denmark: "I sometimes wonder if our youngsters know they are Danish...
...dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when the lady and Brando had been off together for six days, U.S. gossip mills still knew nothing about...
...stockholders limited to annual incomes of $3,800 or less. In one sweep of a pen, the total number of German stockholders was increased by a third, to around 800,000. Determined to have a competitive private-enterprise economy, the government is now planning to sell off the great Volkswagen works, a steel and iron-ore company, a shipbuilding company and an aluminum company. Finding buyers is no problem. Since they were issued in March (and nearly 200% oversubscribed), the Preussag shares have risen in value from $34.50 to $59.50. Public interest in stock purchasing has risen to such...
Divorced. Richard McCutchen, 32, personable onetime Marine Corps captain, now a Volkswagen district service manager, famed for his $64,000 winnings on cooking knowledge (he was the first top winner) from TV's now defunct The $64,000 Question; by Betsy Griffen McCutchen, 32; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Delaware, Ohio...