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DIED. IVAN HIRST, 84, British army engineer who retooled Volkswagen's bombed-out factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, at World War II's end to roll out one of the firm's prewar prototypes, which soon became the popular Beetle; in Marsden, England. The British army ordered 20,000 for transport duty, ironically turning Hitler's dream of a "people's car" into a reality...
Oddly, the U.S. has also benefitted because it produces players who are good enough to play in Europe. Midfield maestro Claudio Reyna, 24, from Springfield, N.J., has established himself at Wolfsburg in Germany's top league, along with teammate Chad Deering, 27, from Plano, Texas. Starting U.S. goalkeeper Kasey Keller, 28, from Lacey, Wash., minds the nets for England's Leicester City and is easily one of the world's top keepers. His backup, Brad Friedel, of Bay Village, Ohio, plays at Liverpool, one of England's most famous teams...
Most cars are still dreamed up in Detroit and Turin, Wolfsburg and Tokyo. But virtually all the world's major automobile companies -- 18 to date -- have established design departments within an hour or two of downtown Los Angeles. The Japanese were first. Then came special think tanks run by America's Big Three. So far, an estimated two dozen production-model cars have been shaped by the new California design colony, including, of course, the delicious, almost perfect, and instantly successful Miata, designed by four young Americans (and a Japanese) working for Mazda in Orange County. Now the influx...
...similar situation occurred in the border town of Zicherie, 15 miles north of Wolfsburg. The local volunteer fire department voted to give an old rescue van to Jahrstedt, a small East German farm center just 1 1/2 miles away via a newly opened border post. But the transfer bogged down in government red tape, and the van sits idle in a garage in the West. Still, the offer led to discussions among the fire fighters. Within two weeks the fire departments met over steins of beer and plates of wurst for professional talk. At present they are working out disaster...
...entailed a drive of 120 miles and special permission, rarely given, to enter the border zone. Few took the trouble. On Nov. 14 East German workers cut the wire, and now hundreds of two- stroke Trabants pour across the line every day, loaded with East German shoppers headed to Wolfsburg to buy cheap clothes or tropical fruit -- or to find "gray market" jobs to pay for their purchases. And, increasingly, Volkswagens and Opels trundle in the other direction as former East Germans head back to visit friends and relatives. Polls indicate that an astounding 47 million of the 61 million...