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...lonely lane winding amid stands of pecan trees and through fields of greening winter oats near Baton Rouge, a road construction gang one morning last week discovered the body of a woman: beside her 1960 Renault Dauphine lay Dr. Margaret Rosamond McMillan, 38, bludgeoned to death. The crime shook the campuses of Louisiana State University, both in Baton Rouge and at the New Orleans branch, where "Rosie" McMillan was an assistant professor of biology. The events that followed shook L.S.U. even harder...
When they came clattering into town after town in two dusty Mercedes, a Renault and a Citroen, the visitors from America looked more like a wandering minstrel show than a first-class string quartet. The cars sagged with musical scores and books, the roofs were piled high with luggage. Crammed in with the musicians and wives were eight children of assorted ages. But when they turned up in white tie and tails to play at the Tel Aviv Museum last week, the members of Chicago's Fine Arts Quartet won the same kind of tumultuous reception they have encountered...
...RENAULT SALES in the U.S. topped Volkswagen monthly total for first time in September, 9,439 cars to 8,654. But Volkswagen is still leading foreign-car seller for first nine months, with 82,755 cars to 65,244 for Renault...
...their annoyance, Tel Aviv newspapers made wry play with the name of Renault's President Pierre Dreyfus. They incorrectly identified him as the grandson of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who 65 years ago this month was arrested in France on trumped-up charges of treason, in what became (with Emile Zola's help) the classic example of anti-Semitism in the French army of the day. Motormaker Dreyfus said that his stand on the Israeli contract was strictly business. In four years Renault has sold only 3,800 cars in Israel. "It is not possible for us to sell...
...soon as Renault made the decision to cancel its Israeli contract, the Arab League struck its name off the blacklist, and the company was free to go ahead with a reported deal to sell Nasser 4,000 cars...