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Hammering Away. A bigger factor, however, is that the Beetle is not the economy car it once was. Largely because of repeated devaluations of the U.S. dollar and upward revaluations of the German mark, the price of Volkswagens in the past 18 months rose 30% in the U.S., a market that accounts for one-third of all Beetle sales worldwide. The port-of-entry price of a Super Beetle in the U.S., without options or accessories, is $2,849, compared with a basic $2,442 for a similarly stripped-down Ford Pinto. It is a fact that U.S. and Japanese...
...intractable organic shapes of hill, tree and terrace to anything much better than a set of decorous formal clichés whose color verges on the garish. Indeed, the only part of the great outdoors he could handle with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face the viewer like a blue polygonal tablecloth -framed in the shuttered terrace door of a villa on the Côte d'Azur and bearing a yacht's triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life...
...year later he became station manager, after another year, station supervisor, then general salesman, district manager, division manager and on upward in the corporate hierarchy of what was to become America's second largest oil company. By 1961, he was president and chairman of the board...
...News Special. An examination of "upward mobility" among black families, filmed in Atlanta and Kansas City. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
...pump and buy two cents worth of gas. Then we'd go out in the woods and put it right up to our noses and," here he imitates a gasoline pump, one arm as the handle and the other as the spigot, eyes blinking and rolling upward like the gallon counter and mouth making the sound of the machine as it fills the tank, "Bong bong! Bong bong! Bong bong...