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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French industry is atomized into countless small, family-owned firms, whose self-satisfied owners are often reluctant to risk expansion or spend for modernization. Of the 30 biggest industrial companies outside the U.S., twelve are German, ten British, but only two are French (Renault and Rhône-Poulenc). Expansion capital is hard to come by. Frenchmen are wary of investing, often prefer to sock their savings into real estate and gold. They have seen too many investments demolished by wars and inflations, and their fears have hardly been allayed by the 40% plunge in the French stock market since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Not so Much Non | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Plea for Flexibility. Volkswagen is also puzzled over how to design an impact-absorbing steering column for its boxy Microbus, since the column is nearly vertical. One especially irksome item is a rear-window defroster. France's Renault complains that such a device would be "superfluous," since an outside mirror does the job adequately. An impossibility in many very small cars, such as Britain's Mini-Minor, is a requirement to have the front seat set back far enough so that in a collision passengers' heads will not snap down to the dashboard. One solution: shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: New Front for the Safety Furor | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

East-West trade already is clipping along at a $10 billion rate this year. Although more of the goods involved, from Renault and Fiat cars to a U.S. petroleum-cracking plant, are Eastbound, the Communists still stand to make money out of the deals. No Western bank is allowed a branch in Moscow, but the Russians already have banks in London, Paris and Beirut that earn attractive commissions by cutting red tape, handling paper work and removing the risk for Western exporters by discounting their bills in advance. Now, with trade on the increase, they have opened a new bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.S.R.: How to Succeed As a Socialist Banker | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...MASK OF APOLLO by Mary Renault. 371 pages. Pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...Mary Renault's appreciation of the glory that was Greece has produced three fine period novels-The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea-each fondly flavored with enthusiasm and scholarship. In this fourth reconstruction of the Hellenic past, she grapples with the ordeal of Dion of Syracuse, who tried vainly, 24 centuries ago, to convert a tyranny into Plato's ideal city-state. This theme does not easily catch the modern fancy; after all, the roll of centuries has only emphasized the unattainability of Dion's dream. It appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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