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...Miglia took its annual toll. A French Citroen spun out, smacked into a tree, bounced into a crowd and injured eight people. The driver, Andre Bouchon, was killed and his copilot injured severely. In another accident, a 15-year-old boy was killed when a French Renault went off the road. In all, five were killed, 25 injured, including twelve drivers...
Suddenly Paris was aware that a man was organizing a Resistance against the cold. Bearded and gaunt, wearing a black cape with the flair of an actor, a 41-year-old priest called Abbé Pierre was rocketing through the city in a tiny green Renault, collecting old clothes, setting up distribution points, opening emergency shelters. From radios and the stages of theaters, on street corners and in churches, the soft voice of Abbé Pierre appealed: "My friends, help...
...small and relatively too expensive ($1,500), except for two-car families; nevertheless, he hopes to triple his U.S. sales to around 4,000 this year. Says he: "Some years ago, British and French manufacturers said we didn't have a chance. Today, Morris and Renault are making 400 cars a day and we are making...
Reporter Fontaine has not always been welcome. He was able to talk to Communist workers at the Renault plant outside Paris only by pretending to be a Swedish journalist. During the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace in Vienna, he had to set up shop next to a Russian tank monument before the suspicious delegates would let themselves be interviewed. But in all his wanderings, he ran into censorship only once: SHAPE public relations officers refused to let him interview allied soldiers on the difference between European and U.S. army pay. Says Fontaine: "They told me that was dynamite...
Today the Volkswagen is West Germany's biggest-selling auto, and it is vying with France's Renault and Italy's Fiat for first place in Continental Europe. At the reconstructed plant, 16,000 workers are now turning out 120,000 Volkswagen a year (about one out of every two German cars). Cheap ($1,095), economical (36 miles per gallon), and with a top speed of 70 m.p.h. from its aircooled four-cylinder engine, the Volkswagen is also beginning to edge into transatlantic markets. Volkswagen's total U.S. sales have already reached 1,200; it recently...