Word: volkswagens
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...five circuitous miles of dirt road. I crossed the ferry for the first time in June, 1964, a little bedraggled from a 24-hour bus trip from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and very curious about what it would be like to teach there. A man in a Volkswagen, who turned out to be a West German trade unionist and Kivukoni's tutor of industrial relations, spotted me as the new tutor of sociology and gave me a lift to the college...
...publicly owned, the firm of Renault, biggest automaker in France, and the private firm of Peugeot, the third biggest after Citroen, will cooperate on research, design, investment, purchasing and exports. Together they will form the second biggest car-making concern in Europe, after Volkswagen, with an estimated output of 1,100,000 vehicles this year. The two separate lines of cars will be maintained and, so as not to give left-wingers the chance to say that private interests are getting control of Renault, the two firms will retain their corporate identities...
Almost as if satisfied that enough trouble had been stirred up in the domestic industry, Crusader Nader turned his attention to foreign cars. He told a Senate subcommittee: "It is hard to find a more dangerous car than the Volkswagen...
...experienced the exhilaration dodging snorting buses along Massachusetts Ave, cannot imagine the feeling of absolute release, the joy of danger challenged and defeated that purges the mind and leaves it ready to tackle the knottiest of scholastic problems. Has Councillor Mahoney ever stood on the center strip while a Volkswagen buzzed past only inches from his nose? We doubt...
...Busters were the unknown riflemen who last summer slaughtered more than 100 sea lions on California's Santa Barbara Island, then bravely blew up the unattended ranger station. Second award went to the unidentified vandals who, late last fall in the Cascades, demolished George Tanner's parked Volkswagen while he lay dying of cold and exposure a few hundred yards away...