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...they became aware of a towering presence in their midst. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics and chronicler of the Affluent Society, emerged from the building. Galbraith, less than twenty-four hours back from a sabbatical in England, joined the group, leaning on the back of a white BMW. Soon, almost all the marchers had joined him, sitting on the car's trunk, or grouped around in a semicircle before him. Huntington and the CFIA were forgotten, as the crowd stood transfixed by the voice of the ambassador emeritus...
...F.D.P." It was he who led the F.D.P. to flip-flop from right to left, and was instrumental in forming the coalition that brought Willy Brandt to the chancellorship last October. His only concession to the formality of his new post was to forsake his sporty blue BMW for the properly ministerial black Mercedes limousine...
...Munich physician who will be a welcome addition to Bonn's diplomatic whirl. For the easygoing Scheel, however, his new eminence imposes a few regrettable strictures. Not the least of them is that he can no longer wear loud sports jackets or whiz about Bonn in his zippy BMW 2500 sedan ("the businessman's sports car"). Even a foe of pretension must allow himself to be chauffeured in a stately black Mercedes if he also happens to be West Germany's Foreign Minister...
...Caddy, but Elvis Presley has diamond dust on his. For further easy identification, Presley's car sports a yacht-style rear-seat lounge, portholes, gold lame drapes, gold curtains, gold mouton carpeting, gold-plated telephone and 24-carat hubcaps and tail pipes. The hubcaps on Ursula Andress' BMW, on the other hand, sport medallions that depict Ursula emerging from a swimming pool...
...management phased out the old models to concentrate on the New Class category, sold BMW's interest in an airplane-engine plant to put all resources behind the new car and motorcycles. In 1962, the company sold 43,000 cars and 4,300 motorcycles. Last year sales were 71,274 and 9,071 respectively. For Hahnemann, a stocky man who wears slacks and an open shirt to board meetings, it is all good fun. He says: "I bring a sportsman's attitude to business. Business is a game for sportsmen...