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...stadium. The national teams paraded by the grandstand in a panoply of colors as massed bands played modern dance tunes instead of the traditional martial anthems. The Olympic flame, carried some 3,500 miles by an international team of 5,976 runners, was borne to the torch by Gunter Zahn, 18, West German runner. West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad of the modern era." The mountain horns flourished, and 80,000 enthusiastic spectators and hundreds of millions of TV viewers settled...
...duty trucks, buses and engines, which account for more than 40% of its business, should easily match last year's record $1.26 billion, yield more than $20 million in profits. And its exports to 160 countries will rise by 9% to 100,000 cars. Recession? Scoffs Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler's 53-year-old chief: "We at Mercedes were ready...
Meanwhile, the company plans to keep up a marketing push that, for all of Mercedes' staid image, has become truly muscular. Deciding that his company ought to do better in the "world's toughest market," Mercedes' Zahn ended a U.S. marketing deal with now-defunct Studebaker-Packard in 1965, built up an independent network of 260 dealers. By carefully watching car-buying tastes in the U.S.-where 85% want automatic transmission (v. only 40% in Germany) and 65% ask for air conditioning (v. less than 1%), Mercedes has increased its American sales by 25% this year...
...visitors from the University of Pennsylvania, however, endorsed Radcliffe's "almost ideal" educational set-up. "There is a thirst for knowledge that Penn lacks," affirmed Jacqueline L. Zahn, Penn '62. "Radcliffe comes closer to realizing its academic goals. At Penn we just seem to scrape the surface...
...Translation key: Tooth (Zahn) is a pretty girl. Jazz bomb (Jazz Bombe) is a good dancer. The coals are right (Die Kohlen stimmen) means there is enough money. Heap (Haufen) is a band. Served (bedient) stands for tops. Cloud (Wolke) means roughly a gasser. Sinatra is any singer, and keg (Fass) is a first-rater. Oblique (schräg) is real gone...