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Trendex. In Wolfsburg, West Germany, an ad in the Wolfsburger Nachrichten offered for sale a "television set slightly damaged by a blow of the fist...
...ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that he raced off across his native Franconian countryside singing Ins Land der Franken fahren from his Mercedes' windows. He outdrew Socialist Boss Erich Ollenhauer three to one in the Saarland's industrial Völklingen. Heckled by Volkswagen workers in Wolfsburg over his plan to sell their state-owned plant, he sent 35,000 letters to their homes explaining that the whole idea was to sell "people's shares" to small investors like themselves. Wolfsburg, like Nürnberg and Vঝklingen, went C.D.U. for the first time ever...
...Heinz Nordhoff is not yet satisfied. Last week, just before taking off on a trip to the Far East to check on car sales in India, Indonesia, Siam and Ceylon, Nordhoff made a last-minute inspection of Volkswagen's third production line at Wolfsburg, now coming into production. It will boost output from 750 to 1,000 cars a day. On top of that, a new distributor-owned assembly plant in Belgium (needed because of import restrictions) this week started up. And Australia, which last week got its first Volkswagen-the 200,000th exported since 1947-will soon have...
...Game. At Volkswagen, Nordhoff is paid modestly by U.S. standards (about $25,000 a year). He has long since moved off his office cot and into a modern Wolfsburg house, supplied by the Volkswagen company, where his wife and two grown daughters live in a manner not much different from automakers in Detroit. He collects modern art (latest acquisition: a Renoir), serves fine wines to his guests. Up at 6:30, he drives himself to work in a Volkswagen, spends his evenings reading business correspondence and studying Volkswagen problems all over the world. While most of his traveling...
...capita meat consumption last year was 88 Ibs. v. 133.8 in France and some 90 in Britain (while rationing was still in effect). And while about 2,000,000 family housing units have been built since the war, 4,000,000 more are needed. Eyen in Wolfsburg, where Volkswagen has helped build many homes, an acute shortage still exists...