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...mood thus restored, the trouble spots got engulfed in the pageantry. The two statesmen rode in triumph in an open-top black Citroen between ten-deep lines of Parisians, escorted by red-white-and-blue-uniformed motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside...
...Paris' Rue Oudinot, his movements are signaled ahead by a succession of handclaps; at the ministry entrance and on surrounding street corners, men armed with submachine guns spring to the alert. "Just like a Chicago gangster, eh?" he grinned to a visitor last week, pointing to his armored Citroen with its bulletproof windows. "You won't mind if someone takes a potshot...
...influence exercised over his wife by her old friend, Dr. Maurice Lacour, a steel-eyed physician with a psychiatric practice among society women. In June of 1957, while motoring with Dominique and Dr. Lacour, Walter stopped his car on the road, stepped out and was knocked down by a Citroen. By the time he reached a hospital, with Dr. Lacour giving first aid, he was dead of a skull fracture. Walter left a fortune estimated at $142.5 million. His heir was Dominique, who immediately appointed her brother, Jean Lacaze, as administrator of the great Zellidja enterprises in Morocco...
...medium-priced ($1,445 to $1,968) sedans in 144 model and color combinations. Renault, which has sold 1,000,000 baby cars in the last ten years, is moving into the sports-car class with a snappy two-seater called the Floride at $2,023. And everyone from Citroen to Britain's Austin is jumping into the station-wagon market with low-priced cars that combine the features of conventional sedans long popular with Europe's buyers with the roominess of businesslike carryalls...
...scoots about in a 1924 Rolls, stuffs his mouth with diced raw beef like a kid gobbling popcorn. His self-dubbed "spontaneous creations" are flashy signatures squeezed in a frenzy straight from the paint tubes onto one-tone backgrounds. ¶ Edouard Pignon, who went from coal mining and a Citroen assembly line to painting Picasso-flavored landscapes, now adds a lyrical personal tempo to his semi-abstractions. A neat, natural talent whose 1957 oils convey the Mediterranean joy, light and life of a little resort near Marseilles, Pignon is currently on view both in Paris' Galerie de France...