Word: citroen
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...vast palace near the Bois de Boulogne, a handsome wife and a son. He also had mistresses: the first, an opera singer, had refused to marry him ("As long as I'm only his mistress, I'm still free. His authority is incomplete"). He despised Automaker Andre Citroen, but enjoyed competing with him, was even a little regretful when Citroen went broke in 1934 trying to build a plant as modern as Renault's. "It was a dirty trick, showing him my place," Louis grinned...
...that most Americans are always ready to slobber ecstatically over anything French? Take, for example, your Dec. 5 article on the new Citroen, which can only laughingly be referred to as an automobile. I have lived in France for two years and have been here constantly since the duckbilled (and humpbacked, tuck-tailed) "Goddess" appeared. "A million Frenchmen can't be wrong," you say? Man, if that many jokers invested in the old six-place family hearse, that represents a heap of idiocy-which will only be exceeded if a million more undiscerning souls buy the 1956-style Flying...
...Sometimes, too, they ask for help in finding a decent job, and help is always forthcoming. In a dilapidated garret in the suburb of Aubervilliers live Andree, Juliette and Colette-each 24, each working in a factory. Colette- and Juliette work in the nearby Tungsram plant, Andree in the Citroen factory 'in Asnieres. Despite her training years in factory work, Andree's hands are red and swollen from the steel particles thrown off by the cutting tools in the big machine shop where she works with 300 other women...
...factories God is only a bad word," she says. "Very few go to church or think of religion. Some of them weren't even baptized, many aren't baptizing their own children. Yet they need God so badly!" Andree has worked only a fortnight at Citroen, yet she is already getting to be known as a missionary worker. "Last week a fellow worker noticed my ring and asked about my family. I invited her to our garret, and when she arrived, I told her the whole story. We're close friends already. By the time my hands...
...peak, U.S. vacationists are on the move -about their own country and on record invasions of foreign shores. The travelers, according to reports from all our sources, are devoting themselves mostly to just plain fun, like the newlyweds motoring down the Loire Valley in a rented new bug-model Citroen, the bald Philadelphian sipping vermouth and eying the Italian beauties strolling along Rome's Via Veneto, or the middle-aged sportsmen playing at being matadors in Madrid's new bullfighting cafe...