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...decade ago, and started the compact trend. U.S. automakers managed to fight off the trend by joining it. Now they are fighting back on Volkswagen's home ground and challenging VW's lead as West Germany's fastest selling car by appealing to the German yen for more luxurious autos. In 1963's first nine months, VW's share of the burgeoning West German market dropped from 33% to 28%, while General Motors hiked its share from 18% to 23½% and Ford rose from...
...unprincipled colleagues in a last-ditch fight for control of the firm, a kidnaper strikes. Intending to seize Gondo's young son, he nabs the chauffeur's boy by mistake. Swiftly, the issues narrow to meaningful dimensions: Gondo faces ruin unless he uses his last 50 million yen (approximately $139,000) to consummate a secret stock purchase. Must he, now, give up 30 million yen and a lifetime of work to save another man's son? Bristling at the center of this moral dilemma, Actor Mifune delivers a restrained performance that summarizes all the stresses of thwarted...
...Mekong Delta 100 miles southwest of Saigon, where a band of Viet Cong ambushed an entire government company with mortars and machine guns. Of 130 men, 55 were killed and 34 wounded, six listed as missing. The Viet Cong escaped with 71 American weapons. In coastal Phy Yen province, on the other hand, government troops surprised a group of guerrillas preparing to attack a hamlet, killed 23 of them...
Both types wanted to go to jail very badly at the beginning of the summer. Among the coffee house-fast freight-self-defense for the Negro-rice diet set, going to jail must be worth about as many points as a hitch-hike to southeastern Peru. And the simple yen for jail was the force behind their organizing. For several days, they moved around the circle of the very committed Negroes, assuring those who least needed it that this time demonstrations would be big and effective, and persuaded in turn by the inevitable enthusiasm of the Movement regulars that maybe...
...around for the pure delight of it. At a time when the most voracious fan can get his kicks by twisting a TV dial, do-it-yourself football seems absurdly out of date. But every Sunday, in dozens of U.S. cities, the sandlots are full of amateurs with a yen to work off frustrations, sweat out hangovers or relive their younger days of gridiron glory. They are plumbers, policemen, office workers, salesmen, doctors, teachers-in their 20s, 30s or even their 40s. A very few hope to catch the eye of a scout and follow in the footsteps of Baltimore...