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...Secure in the knowledge that thousands of troops were deployed in the outskirts to protect the city from the Viet Cong, students and politicians lounged idly at sidewalk cafes, carping endlessly about the government's handling of the war. Shops bustled with busy shoppers: thousands of insect-like Renault taxis still clogged the streets. And as always, at midday practically everyone went home for the traditional siesta...
...joined the Council of Economic Advisers, moved to Budget in 1962. He is attuned to Johnson's penchant for quick answers to questions, keeps on his desk a sheet of paper with the latest federal employment figures. From the time he arrives at work in his battered Renault till he leaves for home in suburban Maryland, Gordon is a prodigious worker; the 80-hour, seven-day week he put in last week is not unusual. Gordon likes to joke that Johnson has stopped calling him at midnight or at 6 in the morning, now "confines his calls to office...
With the righteous indignation of a Renault-owner boxed in between two Buicks, Fontenele commenced by hiring a fleet of trucks to tow off all illegally parked cars. When police garages were full, offending cars were simply stashed away on isolated streets. No records were kept of what went where. If the car was in a police pound, the owner paid maybe a $4 fine; if it wasn't -shrug. One army captain wailed that it took him three days of searching to find his Volkswagen; other owners found that vandals had followed the tow trucks, stripped their cars...
...Foul!" There were instant shouts of "foul!" Safety engineers complained that the demonstration was longer on publicity value than on detached scientific measurements. Renault President Vin cent Grob called the experiment "biased, proving only that if a big, heavy object can be directed to hit a small object, the small object can be hurt." U.S. compact-car makers, who have long resented being lumped with foreign-made economy cars in statistical surveys, discreetly pointed out that the only U.S.-made compacts involved in the Connecticut tests (two Falcons and a Rambler) had emerged in comparatively good condition-but naturally, these...
...that resemble U.S. compacts. The popularity of such cars has hurt the small Volkswagen, cutting its share of the German market last year from 34% to 28% . Volkswagen's larger "1500" model is selling well enough to make up for some of the slippage, and France's Renault is reportedly readying a bigger sister for its Dauphine and Caravelle. Fiat recently introduced a 12-ft. "850" model whose chassis is almost a foot longer than the company's basic...