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...even its traditional anthracite production is down. Describing the deadening bureaucracy, a French correspondent reported: "No one in a factory moves as much as a stool without asking the advice of an entire ministry." On Hanoi's broad avenues, which under the French were abustle with Renaults and Citroëns, traffic consists mostly of bicycles and pedicabs, and shop windows are bare. The principal diversions are 5:30 a.m. exercises, reading propaganda posters, and endless indoctrination sessions...
...size." Seeking Footholds. President de Gaulle encourages French firms to join, and helped unite glassmaking Saint-Gobain with Pechiney, one of France's largest chemical companies. Because of De Gaulle's policy, many French businessmen expect the eventual linkup of the two big privately owned French automakers, Citroën and Peugeot...
...years ago, a battered, rattling two-cylinder Citroën stopped outside the offices of the Philips record company in Brussels, and two nuns got out. Inside, the older one did all the talking. "You see, we have these retreats for young girls at our Fichermont monastery, and in the evenings we sing songs composed by Sister Luc-Gabrielle here." She gestured at her round-faced, bespectacled companion. "The songs are such a hit with our girls, they ask us to transcribe them." Would the company make a record and a hundred or so copies, which the sisters could give...
...longer. In Canada these days, an eye-rolling love affair is blossoming between Quebec and the France of Charles de Gaulle's politique de grandeur. French Renaults, Peugeots and Citroëns fill the Montreal streets; French wines, Vichy water and apéritifs are all the rage. Air France and Trans-Canada Air Lines enjoy a booming tourist trade: TCA ran 600 charters to Europe this year...
Priced at $3,540 in Britain (including a $615 purchase tax), the new Rover sells for less than the cheapest Jaguar, and on the Continent should be highly competitive with the small Mercedes and Citroën. Rover executives worry whether the 2000's flashy good looks will steal sales from its staid older brothers, which are still in production. But why worry? At the London show, Rover salesmen have already collected enough orders for the new car to keep Rover's plants running at full speed for an entire year...