Word: peugeot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inching behind a snowplow in his beige Peugeot, French Premier Georges Pompidou trekked manfully through the hills of his native Auvergne, waving at the few hardy souls on the roads. Warmed by a coal heater, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet stood on a sawdust floor in Murat and told 300 townsmen that the government had forgotten them. Socialist Leader François Mitterrand was in Ussel, holding forth on the evils of "caste and privilege" in a hall that stank of sweat and Gauloise Bleue cigarettes. And at Aubervilliers, Communist Waldeck Rochet denounced "social demagoguery" in a suitably dingy gymnasium...
...since the diminutive exiled Moroccan leftist leader vanished from a street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For the past several weeks the knotty mystery of his disappearance has been unraveling in a Paris court. All the evidence confirms the likelihood that he stepped willingly into a black Peugeot and was whisked to a villa in a Paris suburb because he believed that envoys of his old political enemy, Morocco's King Hassan II, were trying to contact him with an offer to return home for a reconciliation with the King. Ben Barka was later handed over...
Died. Jean-Pierre Peugeot, 70, retired head of France's third biggest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), with an output of 291,176 vehicles and $573 million in sales last year, who in 1945 took over the family business, had to rebuild its bombed-out and dismantled factories, nevertheless started producing cars again the same year, kept the Peugeot one of Europe's best-made, if somewhat stodgily styled, medium-priced cars; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...Peugeot's $2,230 model 204, sportiest of all the French lines, a handsome, Italianate design, has a smaller engine than the Volkswagen but at its 86 m.p.h. top speed is 10 m.p.h. faster than the beetle...
...European automakers. U.S.-owned or controlled companies now account for about a third of all cars built in Europe. G.M.'s Vauxhall, British Ford and Chrysler-controlled Rootes Motors together produce nearly 50% of all British-made cars. Like the recent merger of France's Renault and Peugeot in France, the B.M.C.-Jaguar combine, to be known as British Motor (Holdings) Ltd., is geared to combat the U.S.'s advances in Europe...