Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to the U.S. He had built a minor Paris reputation as a television M.C. and animator of the popular Tele-Paris TV show. After obtaining a month's leave of absence from the French network, Angelvin sailed for New York accompanied by his large Buick sedan. Narcotics agents, already interested in Angelvin's connections with a suspected drug dealer named Scaglia, voyaged with him; on landing, Angelvin was accused of having illegally imported 50 kilos of heroin hidden in the car. Before his trial, Angelvin was held as a material witness in several New York City lockups...
...Volkswagen, manufactured in Sāo Paulo, has long been Brazil's most popular car, but the automaniacal middle class is already trading up. At this year's show, Volkswagen introduced a four-door 1600 model sedan that will sell for $3,733 v. $2,666 for "the beetle." Similarly, General Motors showed off the Opala, its first made-in-Brazil sedan, a cross between the U.S. Chevy Nova and the German Opel. Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where...
Nine minutes after the start of his walk, a black sedan zoomed toward Arias. Three plainclothesmen got out, collected Arias and drove him off to police headquarters. And that, it seemed, was that-unless one had read a novel published in Paris last spring, predicting on a specific October Sunday, in a city exactly like Madrid, a man wearing posters calling for free elections would stroll down a crowded street. The author of the novel was, of course, Arias...
Rowan, who was divorced in 1959, lives sedately with his second wife, Adriana, 26, a former model, in a spacious three-bedroom apartment overlooking the harbor of Manna Del Rey. The garage below houses four cars (a Mercedes-Benz roadster and sedan, an Austin-Healey and a Corvette). Berthed at the dock out back is a 35-ft. ketch, Aisling (Gaelic for dream spirit), on which the Rowans spend most weekends. "These signs of success," Rowan says, "are nice things, appreciated and prized. But you know, more important and more rewarding than any of these things is doing your...
...major industries, with help from the government, are also making serious efforts to increase their export trade, and small businessmen are trying harder than ever to sell abroad. One delegation of small traders arriving in the U.S. recently included a dealer in crossbows equipped with telescopic sights, manufacturers of sedan chairs and stagecoaches, and a promoter from Surrey who maintains that he can provide "the most distinguished casket since Shakespeare's day." For prospective buyers in no hurry to take delivery, he says that he will also provide a suitable coat of arms on the casket...