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...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...
Oldsmobile introduced its racy, 375-h.p. Toronado, first U.S. car with front-wheel drive since the Cord phased out in 1937. Some foreign automakers, notably France's Citroën, also market front-wheel cars. According to Olds engineers, front-wheel drive offers more traction and stability than conventional rear drive; it also eliminates the hump on the floor (because the transmission and differential are up front). Other engineers contend that front-wheel cars tend to oversteer, and that the added weight forward causes greater wear on brakes. The Toronado, a two-door, six-passenger hardtop that is four...
...week long, an Algerian army band tootled discordantly through some 60 unfamiliar national anthems. Bureaucrats frantically cabled Paris to find out what had happened to 200 new Citroën limousines ordered for the great occasion. And Des Pins, a once tranquil seaside resort where the Algerian government insisted to the bitter end that the second Afro-Asian Conference would take place this week on schedule, looked like a manic blend of Hellzapoppin and The Last Days of Pompeii...
Cool & Condescending. Last week's 85 contestants had hardly roared away from the starting line when three factory-backed Citroëns were penalized for exceeding Nairobi's posted speed limit of 30 m.p.h. Outside city limits, nature took over. A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe. Britain's Stirling Moss, essaying a backwoods comeback after the near-fatal accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere...
...writes steamy manifestoes, the most famous of which praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise primitive in a modern age; they tend to be corrosively colored, rank as a humus heap...