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...keep most of his troops dispersed around New York and 2) concentrate on entrenched artillery along the rivers around Manhattan. Washington still hopes to keep British ships, especially troop transports, from moving freely up and down the rivers to outflank him. To this end he has also placed chevaux-de-frise (chains of sunken hulks studded with stakes just beneath the water line) between New Jersey and Fort Washington, just south of the King's Bridge. The extent to which such devices may hinder British naval action is doubtful. If Washington is also doubtful, he is not the kind...
...profits, on just about the same sales: $2.1 billion. Peugeot offers a complete line of cars, in contrast to Citroën, which has concentrated on the upper and lower ends of the market with its avant-garde luxury lines and spartan, eccentrically styled Deux Chevaux. The merged company will be headed by Peugeot Director-General Francois Gautier, 67, but Michelin tire company, which owns a controlling share of Citroën's stock, is expected to retain a similar position in the combined enterprise. Not surprisingly, French investors reacted to the engagement by bidding up the price...
...deux chevaux coughed and stalled, coughed and stalled all the way down the hill. I stopped at the bistro. Maybe he had seen the light and gone in to see his friends from the town. I hoped he was there where it was bright and warm. Jean-Luc answered first when I called into the smoky room for Francois. "He's not here, but I saw him head for the seawall about half an hour ago. Give me the keys, I'll help you look...
...deux chevaux was there, and Jean-Luc, but Francois was not. When Jean-Luc saw me returning alone, his face tightened. He remembered, I suppose, someone he had once pulled out from the next morning's ebb. I remembered, too. "Call the police," I said. He went for the phone. I went down the crooked steps to the chapel behind the house for a moment's rest before they came...
...white marble grave, where he lies beside his daughter Anne. The people come with flowers and handmade crosses of Lorraine, plaques and crude placards reading "To our leader," "notre grand chef" "to our liberator," "notre grand général." They come in battered deux-chevaux, creaking farm wagons, sleek Citroëns, by chartered trains and buses. General Jacques Massu, who was once sacked for his split with De Gaulle over Algeria and later won his way back into favor, came on horseback...