Word: peugeots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city dweller who stayed in town for the election took advantage of the sunny weather and left for his country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their off hours they gather in favorite...
...spree. Fearing an eventual devaluation of the franc, Frenchmen are sinking their savings into goods. Two months ago, there were 10,000 color-television sets in all of France; now there are 70,000. Washing machines, record players and other appliances are being snapped up at a similar pace. Peugeot is receiving 500 orders a day for its most expensive ($3,000) model, the new 504, even though it can produce only...
...other choice. Chauvinistic as he is, he is also realistic. He has long known that Citroën's decline could only be halted by some sort of a merger. For a while, he urged a merger between Citroën and other French automakers -Peugeot and/or government-owned Renault. But that plan did not even begin to work out, and last month Citroën's Bercot laid his feelings on the line. "There is no substitute," he said. "It is Fiat or nothing...
...return to work began to develop. Union leaders started negotiating with the government and plant owners for an end to the strike on the basis of Pompidou's earlier concessions. Some government postal and telegraph workers went back to their posts. Production resumed at several Peugeot auto plants, and the company expected a full force on the assembly lines this week...
...road. In Kenya, two natives hurled a rock through the windscreen of Kenyan John Greenly's Datsun, knocking him unconscious. By rally's end, only 49 out of the 91 cars were still running, and two dozen drivers were nursing injuries. The winning car: a French Peugeot 404 driven by two Tanzanians, Bert Shankland and Chris Roth well. Said Shankland, with masterly understatement: "We didn't do it for the money-we did it for the excitement...