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...million in 1963, Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, 51, left his Rio de Janeiro beach-front apartment for a local barbecue-and-beer hall. Before he had time to finish his first drink, two men wrestled him out the front door and into the back of a waiting Volkswagen bus. It took less than a minute...
...American-style jawboning. Even then the private companies can simply refuse to accept the government's recommendations. In the late 1950s, for example, the Japanese government suggested that the nation's automakers join forces to produce a low-cost "people's car" modeled after the Volkswagen in order to crack the U.S. market. The automakers refused and launched their own separate products...
...notes Spielberg, 33. "Coppola doesn't have a bank-only courage and fortitude. Chutzpah too: his Zoetrope Studios is preparing more than a dozen challenging projects, despite the fact that Coppola nearly went bankrupt just a month ago. The minimogul, who drives a mini-limo, a customized black Volkswagen Rabbit with dark tinted windows, admits that it is hard to keep one eye on the artistic horizon and the other on the bottom line. "Film makers are not necessarily good administrators. And the concept of the studio is vitally important. But the majors understand the selling of films more...
Iacocca has long anticipated the need for a consolidation of the world's auto companies, and first floated the idea of a "Global Motors" to bankers in 1978. But his company has had little luck finding a partner. Volkswagen backed away from a deal nearly two years ago; France's PeugeotCitroen and Japan's Mitsubishi, with whom Chrysler already has business ties, have shown little interest...
...Europeans have not been able to agree on a unified approach for battling the Japanese. In November, auto-industry representatives from France, Italy, Sweden, West Germany and Britain went to Tokyo to plead for export restraints. But at exactly the same time, Volkswagen Chairman Toni Schmücker was busy arranging an important deal with Nissan, maker of Datsuns, that could eventually lead to the production of up to 200,000 Volkswagens in Japan. Said one Volkswagen official: "I think there's an American saying for it: 'If you can't beat 'em, join...