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...COMPACT CAR, described as a "spacious small car," will be marketed next year by France's Citroen in competition with Volkswagen and U.S. compacts. Called the AMI 6, the four-door sedan has a front-mounted, air-cooled engine, front-wheel drive, 62-m.p.h. top speed. U.S. price: under...
FRENCH CAR EXPORTS are facing more cuts because of U.S. compact competition. Renault fired 3,000 of its employees as unsold cars crowd French warehouses. Automaker Pan-hard cut its work week; Simca and Citroen plan to use some of the same production facilities to cut costs...
...help of French grants and loans, Daddah is slowly building a town; using seashells from the coast as a cheaper substitute for the gravel needed to make concrete. He lives in a prefabricated house just like most of the other prefabricated houses in Nouakchott, contents himself with a tiny Citroen, and sees that his ministers are equally frugal...
When they came clattering into town after town in two dusty Mercedes, a Renault and a Citroen, the visitors from America looked more like a wandering minstrel show than a first-class string quartet. The cars sagged with musical scores and books, the roofs were piled high with luggage. Crammed in with the musicians and wives were eight children of assorted ages. But when they turned up in white tie and tails to play at the Tel Aviv Museum last week, the members of Chicago's Fine Arts Quartet won the same kind of tumultuous reception they have encountered...
...punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were only half as fast. During the war its engineers designed a postwar line of advanced electronic computers, the first of which, the Gamma 3, appeared...