Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Volkswagen rolls into a Pennsylvania town...
Until two years ago, the sleepy, small (pop. 3,000) Pennsylvania town of New Stanton near Pittsburgh was little more than a cluster of motels, restaurants and gas stations serving passers-by on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 70. Now it has become a Rabbit farm. Next week Volkswagen Manufacturing Corp. of America, a subsidiary of the giant of German small cars, will begin turning out VW Rabbits in a refitted former Chrysler building on Route 119, just outside New Stanton...
...spend their weekends on the country's ski slopes or on quick trips to resorts in balmy Spain. About 75% of all Norwegian families own their homes and close to half also have vacation retreats-a cottage on the coast or a cabin in the mountains. The humble Volkswagen has been dethroned as king of the road, replaced as Norway's best-selling car by the more luxurious Volvo...
...many tickets, the thing starts out simply enough: Loren Hardeman Sr., 86, founder of the Bethlehem Motor Co. back in the heroic days of car manufacturing, is tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing "the Betsy," a sort of Model T cum Volkswagen for the '70s, ecologically sound, energy conserving, sensible. He hires a stud race-car driver, one Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones), to honcho the project back at the factory, sneaking it by Loren Hardeman III, the old man's grandson (Robert Duvall), who loves cars less than...
...fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics the year after his defeat at the hands of Finch, was urban while Finch was bucolic, articulate while Finch was incoherent, organized while Finch was chaotic, and cerebral while Finch relied on good ol' home-grown common sense. Carmichael--a rich Volkswagen dealer--was the sweetheart of the more intelligent and wealthier 'Mississippians. In the election he carried Jackson, some coastal districts and the Mississippi Delta where plantations still abound and wealth and income disparities are astoundingly great. But the "working men" of Mississippi united. The establishment was overthrown. The "people" had their...