Word: citro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Career. At war's end, Slim plunged deeper than ever into the struggle for liberation. As political director of Neo Destour. for nine years he traveled tirelessly and worked secretly setting up nationalist movement units all over the country. His black Citroën (license No. 225) was featured on so many French police posters that it became famous throughout Tunisia. The French caught him in 1952, jailed him for two years, released him just in time to assist Bourguiba in the 1954 independence negotiations with French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France. He became Bourguiba...
Clues were scarce. The typical whine of the burglars' Citroën truck was heard at about 3 a.m. as it pulled away from the scene; but police were still looking for the truck itself. The museum's semiofficial watchman had spent the night with a sick relative. Local police were snugly in bed until the next morning, when Charwoman Incarnation Olivares arrived, took one look at the bare walls, shrieked: "Mon Dieu, they have pulled off the museum...
Before dawn one morning last week, a plastic-bomb* explosion wrecked Mayor Blanc's ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with...
Cult of Experience. Hemingway's generation was perhaps the last to find technology romantic. There is an entire subplot liaison between Duc and his Citroën. What with cars and guns, women and wars, the Hemingway hero is always counting his good times on his fingers and telling why they went bad. The great good time in 20th century fiction, and the origin of the fête idea, was the three-day fiesta of the running of the bulls at Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises. Fetes end, Due tells himself, when there is a fall from...
...Gaulle had every reason for weariness and despair. News of the insurrection in Algiers first reached him on Sunday at his country home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. When his black Citroën reached the capital shortly before midnight, De Gaulle was greeted by the proffered resignation of Premier Michel Debré, long privately opposed to De Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria. Imperiously, De Gaulle refused Debré's resignation and fired off orders to General Maurice Challe, French commander in chief in Algeria. The orders: finish off the settlers' uprising "during this...