Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's provincial ramble, the first since Secret Army gunmen tried to kill him last year at Petit-Clamart, began at Sedan, where so many jubilant thousands crowded the square before city hall that De Gaulle called upon his critics to note well his enthusiastic reception. As he moved on through the green meadows of the Meuse valley, every village was filled with rubber-booted farmers, schoolchildren with flags, drum and bugle corps. At Charleville, the crowd overflowed the arcaded square, and De Gaulle jeered at "those who would prefer that everything failed, either because it is in their...
...black Mercedes-Benz sedan belonging to Austria's legation in Hungary sped from Vienna to Budapest one morning last week and pulled up in front of the U.S. legation. Inside the building, Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal Konig went to the room occupied since 1956 by Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. For four hours, the two clerics talked about Pope John's wish that the Hungarian primate leave the country and go to Rome as part of John's new "active neutrality" in the cold war (TIME, April...
...Salem Cemetery. Last summer the artists traveled 26,000 miles in New England in a 1952 black Chrysler sedan-"sufficiently hearselike to be inconspicuous in a graveyard." This winter, in a Salem, Mass., cemetery, they were bundled in hooded parkas, sweeping away snow, when they found themselves surrounded by a ring of hostile-looking observers. "You know how Salem feels about witches," says Ann, but nothing happened: burning people is another old New England art that has disappeared...
Domestic service in the 18th century was full of fun for any country boy or girl-there were so many of them that nobody had to work very hard. Sets of tall, matched footmen preceding one's sedan chair (the Countess of Northumberland had nine) were an 18th century equivalent of his-and-her Cadillacs. With little to do and plenty to drink, footmen frequently wrought havoc among the maids, cooks and nurses, but no one liked to break up a set of footmen when things got out of hand, so it was usually the seduced girl...
...DeWayne ("Tiny") Lund, cocky, 265-Ib. stock-car racer who had never won a major championship: the $100,000 Daytona 500, by carefully conserving his fuel supply and wheeling his 1963 Ford sedan around the banked asphalt track at an average speed of 151.566 m.p.h. Lund earned the ride in the Ford when he risked his life to pull its intended driver. Marvin Panch, from the flaming wreckage of a Ford-engined Maserati during a practice run. The badly burned Panch asked that Lund be allowed to take his place as a reward. Lund's share of the prize...