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...publicly owned, the firm of Renault, biggest automaker in France, and the private firm of Peugeot, the third biggest after Citroen, will cooperate on research, design, investment, purchasing and exports. Together they will form the second biggest car-making concern in Europe, after Volkswagen, with an estimated output of 1,100,000 vehicles this year. The two separate lines of cars will be maintained and, so as not to give left-wingers the chance to say that private interests are getting control of Renault, the two firms will retain their corporate identities...
...took Jackie by the arm and steered her through the throng of 2,500 guests toward one of the antechambers set aside for late-night flamenco. It was so packed that they never did get in. At 2:45 a.m., Ambassador Duke drove her home in Alba's Citroen...
Stepping regally from his Citroen, Guinea's President Sékou Touré marched to the podium through a squad of women police in white breeches and gleaming boots. A din of drums and balaphon music filled the square, while gales of girls in green, red and yellow hand-printed dresses waited eagerly for the word. Sékou's speech was "to women in prisons all over the country," whose sentences, he announced, would herewith be reduced by a year - except for those held for criminal offenses...
...Henri Pigozzi, 66, founder and recently retired chairman of France's Simca, an Italian-born onetime Fiat salesman who set up his own factory in France in 1934, went on to become the enfant terrible of the French auto industry by taking over third place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
Perhaps as one concession to his convalescence, he did not travel in his usual speedy Citroen limousine; instead, he decided on a two-car diesel train, which could move him in greater comfort to the rural reaches of France's north. At his first scheduled stop, Soissons, a mighty cheer went up as he stepped before the throng at the Hotel de Ville. He knew as well as they that the Picardy farmers had been protesting angrily against low agricultural prices, so he permitted himself a moment of what for him was consider able levity. Apologizing for having canceled...