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...Communist side, there is a starchy general, complete with well-lit villa, Citroën limousine and champagne and caviar to seduce the willowy government agent; even the Viet Cong would find that amusing. On the U.S. side, Wayne's self-conscious heroes penetrate into the Communist-base area by parachute and then traipse through forests that are obviously south of the Mason-Dixon line rather than...
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...
...road." And no where is the species more homicidal than in France, whose drivers are peculiarly susceptible to "vanity, excessive impetuosity and bad manners." A recent altercation in Paris eloquently illustrates the diagnosis: annoyed when he was delayed briefly by a slow-moving panel truck, the driver of a Citroën sedan sped around it, whipped in front of it in an insulting maneuver known locally as a queue de poisson (fishtail swerve), then forced the truck to stop and shot its driver...
...long maintained a warm climate for U.S. travelers with its "tourist discount." Permitting 14% to 20% discounts on items paid for in foreign cash or checks and headed out of the country, the system is unique in Europe, has spawned thriving sales of everything from cheap trinkets to Citroëns, is a major underpinning of Parisian haute couture. Now the government is moving to cool the trade with new rules that went into effect last week, tangling both tradesmen and tourists in customs red tape...
Despite his wealth, Floirat lives simply. He and wife Julia maintain a modest Montmartre apartment with a view of Sacré Coeur. Floirat owns a Rolls-Royce, but prefers a Citroën. He summers in the Périgord, where he grows apples and walnuts experimentally to establish new money crops. Floirat has also helped to revive the dying truffle industry. Natives insisted that a virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins...