Word: citro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jean-Pierre Peugeot, 70, retired head of France's third biggest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), with an output of 291,176 vehicles and $573 million in sales last year, who in 1945 took over the family business, had to rebuild its bombed-out and dismantled factories, nevertheless started producing cars again the same year, kept the Peugeot one of Europe's best-made, if somewhat stodgily styled, medium-priced cars; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Lacking a tiger in its tank, Sucker manages pretty well with a sly fox named Louis de Funès, full of snarly good humor as the high-class crook in charge of plots. After his Bentley has bested Bourvil's midget Citroën in a two-car tie-up, De Funès decides that he has found the dupe to drive a certain white Cadillac convertible from Naples to Bordeaux. More than hot, the Cad is a crime wave on wheels; its bumpers are full of gold, its fenders are full of heroin, its battery contains...
Terrorism still remains the Communists' deadly alternative weapon. Last week a dozen Viet Cong attacked the guard post of a U.S. officers' billet, the Hotel Victoria, in suburban Saigon. Machine-gunning down the guards, they set off a Claymore-type mine, then backed a Citroën delivery truck loaded with 500 Ibs. of plastique explosive up to the gate and blew the Victoria's ground-floor front wide open. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed, 113 Americans and twelve Vietnamese wounded. Only the week before, a barrier of drums filled with concrete had been removed...
...smaller scale, the U.S. Government last week agreed to provide $245,000 for the planning of a nationwide power grid to integrate the electricity that seven new hydroelectric dams will provide by 1967. In recent months, the U.S.'s American Motors, Britain's Rootes, France's Citroën and West Germany's Volkswagen have all signed deals to begin assembling cars in Iran, thus giving the country that ultimate symbol of industrialization, an auto industry...
...Cabinet-shuffling by which French governments were once formed: "the sterile games of yesterday." Thus it seemed somehow odd for De Gaulle himself to be indulging in that sort of thing. All last week, in a process familiar during the days of the Fourth Republic, official black Citroëns shuttled to and from the beige stone prime-ministerial residence on the Rue de Grenelle bearing nervously hopeful politicians to discuss posts in a new Cabinet. De Gaulle, operating through his faithful Premier, Georges Pompidou, was at work selecting a Cabinet for his new septennat (seven-year term...