Word: autobahn
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...They could buy an American car, even if it began to shimmy at 90 or 100 m.p.h. on the autobahn...
...battle was drawn out and acrimonious, but it finally concluded in less time than it takes a Mercedes to eat up a stretch of an autobahn. Daimler- Benz, the company that makes Mercedes cars and trucks, bought its way into the top ranks of West Germany's defense contractors. The carmaker last week struck a $150 million deal to take over Dornier, West Germany's second largest aerospace manufacturer (1984 sales: about $500 million...
...went up and the Soviets interfered with access to West Berlin, President Kennedy once more turned to a military display. He ordered 1,500 troops of the U.S. 8th Division to form a battle group and drive in armored trucks 110 miles through East Germany along the Helmstedt-Berlin autobahn. Critics called the move too provocative. Kennedy believed it a crucial symbol of his determination. The battle group made an uninterrupted journey and was effusively greeted in Berlin by Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...scene must have looked like something being staged for a Fassbinder movie. The whiz of Volkswagens streaming along the Autobahn slowed down as drivers ogled the spectacle at the side of the road. There sat a Peugeot with a blown-out tire, and perched on a suitcase near by sat a bespectacled Chinese youth serenely playing Haydn on his cello...
Residents of Lüttringshausen, a suburb of Dortmund, West Germany, were startled early last week by the sound of gunshots issuing from a dense forest only 200 yds. from a crowded autobahn. Police investigating the reports surprised two men and a woman blazing away with pistols at a newspaper pinned to a tree. The trio turned their weapons on the police, killing one officer and wounding another in the thigh. The wounded cop managed to shoot two of the attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army...