Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerging from his weekly Cabinet meeting in Algiers' Palais du Gouvernement, Algerian President Houari Bou-mediene climbed into his black Citroën to go to lunch with Minister of State Rabat Bitat. As the car began to roll down the Esplanade de 1'Afrique, a child stepped forward with a petition...
Boumediene had the car stopped and gracefully accepted it. The Citroen had scarcely begun to move again when its windows were suddenly shattered by a burst of machine-gun fire. The bullets missed their target: Boumediene, Bitat and the driver took only superficial cuts from the flying glass. As the car sped away from the scene, security police gunned down and killed two of the assassins...
...testimony of statistics, an automobile is clearly an instrument of destruction, if not outright murder (worldwide, automobiles kill 200,000 persons a year). By Freudian analysis, it is the supreme expression of aggression in an increasingly depersonalized society. Under these circumstances, driving a car should be an urgent matter of concern for Christian moralists, contends France's Abbe Hubert Renard, and in a 306-page book entitled The Automobilist and Christian Morality, he attempts to fashion a schema of ethical principles for the Christian driver...
...innovations--as Sack euphemistically prefers to call the gimmicks--can range from serious advancements in film exhibiting to mere trivia. After all, the Cheri is Sack's prize innovation: it is the only indoor movie complex in the country where you can park your car, step into an elevator, and arrive in the theatre's lobby. On the other hand, the much heralded ice cream parlor in the lobby is quite another matter. For 65 cents, you can make your own sundaes. So there you are. A Man for All Seasons finally reaches intermission. Quick, Harry, get into that line...
...recover, but carmakers predict an increase of 12% this year. Even the staid Deutsche Bank has been inviting Germans to loosen their purse strings. "You can go out and buy those things you put off last year," the bank said last week in a newspaper advertisement. "Perhaps a new car, in order to enjoy the nice season and the economic bloom...