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Left and Right. Grass travels in a green-and-white Volkswagen bus decorated with a Social Democratic rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De." He usually heads for an area in which the SPD either won narrowly or, in losing, drew at least 20% of the vote. Bundestag seats are figured on winning local votes and also on the basis of party percentage of the total vote; Grass's aim is to increase the Socialist national percentage and thereby secure more seats for the party...
...right, Bernhard and Hilla pile their assorted cameras and tripods, plus the makings of a picnic, into their rattling Volkswagen bus and head for the slag heaps. When they are not on a long haul to the coal fields of Liège, Belgium, or the grimy Bassin du Nord of France, they ply a favored route leading from Düsseldorf into the heart of the Ruhr, home of Germany's coal and steel industries. Before a visit to Oberhausen recently, Becher had made contact with one of the plant offices, cajoled plant guards with a few cases...
...engine. At week's end, Chairman Lynn Townsend disclosed that Chrysler will bring out the smallest of the new U.S. compacts in mid-1971. Called "the 25 Car," it will have a wheelbase of only 91 in., about 3 in. less than that of a Volkswagen. > GENERAL MOTORS has spent more than $100 million building a plant to assemble its entry in the small-car market. Code-named the XP877, the new car will be some 10 in. shorter than the Maverick. It will be powered by an aluminum four-cylinder engine. G.M. expects to begin selling...
...year's models will include a wide selection of new specialty sports cars and compacts. Chrysler, for example, will introduce its Challenger to do battle with Ford's still highly successful Mustang. Last week President William Luneburg announced that next year American Motors will bring out a Volkswagen-size car called the Gremlin...
...tremendous bases all over the South. There's a big Air Force one right across the street from the MG dealer's in Montgomery. Hitchhiking back from picking up a new water pump, we got a ride from a big smiling native Brazilian para-medic in his air conditioned Volkswagen bus with two little children. During the week he flies over to Vietnam and parachutes into the combat areas to save the wounded soldiers. He does stuff for them right there while the shooting is still going on, and then flies all the way back to San Francisco with...