Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly a decade, Joseph Diego Ramirez, 37, has ranked as one of the softest touches in Princeton, Minn. (est. pop. 3,200). He contributed a reported $10,000 to landscape city hall with new lawns and tropical palms, leased two Volkswagen Rabbits to the police force for $1 a year, lent a local group $500,000, interest free, to help build a hockey arena, and spent another half a million dollars to lengthen the runway of the municipal airport. Then, in a sharp turn of events, Ramirez presented himself two weeks ago at the nearby St. Paul jail in response...
...walkout could affect the availability of America's best-selling German auto, the Volkswagen. Though VW builds cars in the U.S., its American production is in jeopardy because key parts must come from Germany. The company's plant in New Stanton, Pa., has been gearing up for a planned November introduction of the Golf (expected price range: $7,500 to $11,500), a restyled and renamed version of the slow-selling Rabbit. But unless the German metalworkers go back to work within two weeks, the Golf may be delayed, and the 2,700 workers at the New Stanton...
...president of BSN Corp. (1983 sales: $20 million), a Dallas mailorder sporting goods house. Seventeen years ago, Blumenfeld was laid off from his job as an industrial-guard supervisor. Noticing that tennis nets on public courts were often in tatters, the fledgling entrepreneur loaded 100 new nets into his Volkswagen van and set out on his first sales trip, returning a few weeks later with a $4,000 profit. Today, BSN markets more than 2,000 items, including golf clubs and tennis wear, and its payroll has blossomed from 21 workers to 250 in the past five years. Says Blumenfeld...
...parts in the important West German auto industry. By the end of the week the stoppages engulfed 69,000 more of the country's 680,000 auto workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker, has already closed two plants. Porsche and Mercedes-Benz might also curtail production...
Dutka has collected some show business memories: "Cats Director Trevor Nunn giving me a mesmerizing reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Grizabella, the Glamour Cat'; Paul Newman letting me take a rare close look at his souped-up Volkswagen; South African Playwright Athol Fugard sitting in the Algonquin Hotel lobby and analyzing the tragedy of apartheid; Robert Redford asking for my opinions on President Reagan, the press and living in New York City before launching into a discussion of directing in Hollywood...