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...studying the habits of the Peugeot family, Raymond kidnaped little Eric on April 12 last year from a sandbox at the exclusive St.-Cloud country club, left behind a typewritten note to the boy's father, demanding $100,000 ransom. Bundling the boy into a stolen Peugeot 403 sedan, Raymond and Pierre drove to the farmhouse at Grisy-les-Plâtres. Pierre Larcher's mistress, 19-year-old Rolande Niemezyk-who had twice escaped from a school for delinquent girls-watched over the child, and a TV set kept him amused. The kidnapers sent ransom instructions...
...will go on sale next fall. The car, which resembles U.S. compacts, is 6 in. longer overall than the current Volkswagen, will have a larger, air-cooled, four-cylinder rear engine, come in station-wagon and two-door models. Volkswagen says it will not be sold in the U.S. Sedan price in Germany: $1,600 v. $1,150 for the current model...
...tourists seemed innocuous enough when they turned up at the Russian border on July 26. Mark I. Kaminsky, 28, of Edwardsburg, Mich, and Harvey Bennett. 26. of Bath. Me. had hired a Russian-made Volga sedan in Helsinki, and their papers stated that they planned a 30-day motor trip through Russia to brush up on their Russian. Kaminsky and Bennett had met in the Air Force in 1953; both took Russian in college. Kaminsky had landed a job as an instructor at Purdue this fall, and Bennett, fresh out of U.C.L.A., was still looking...
...luxury models; Chevrolet trimmed $35 off its Corvair line. Pontiac introduced its new four-cylinder Tempest compact, which has a transaxle-a combination of transmission and axle in the rear-that almost completely eliminates the front-seat transmission hump. It set the factory list price for the four-door sedan at $1,975, or $200 below prices of the Buick Special and Oldsmobile F85 sedan compacts...
...sharply restyled Lincoln Continental, which resembles the original Continental. Lincoln has been so hard hit by declining sales (down 22% so far this year to 14,000 cars v. 12% gain by Cadillac to 110,000 cars) that production for 1961 is limited to two models: a four-door sedan and a four-door convertible, the first car of that type to be mass produced in the U.S. since Cadillac and Buick dropped their Phaetons...