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After abandoning the Renault and commandeering a passing motorist's white sedan, the trio released the hostages unharmed. They then zipped off to their hideout-which, it became clear later, was an apartment just around the corner from the office of Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. While 10,000 of Paris' finest scoured the city, the Jubin gang felt confident enough to pull yet another job. They were abducting a young secretary, to use as a hostage, in her car when one of the few police units in Paris not assigned to the case apprehended them. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Great Getaway | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...even more impressive example of China's industrial leap forward is the Shanghai Automobile Factory, which produces two-ton trucks and the Shanghai model sedan. There is no assembly line. Clusters of workers carry pieces to autos being assembled, which cranes then move along to another pile of parts in the factory. Last year the plant turned out 2,900 trucks and only 500 cars, in accordance with a quota set by the First Ministry of Machine Building. The cars, though, look well made and appear to be assembled with tender loving care. By American standards the styling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reporter's Second Looks | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...Shanghai sedan, which still will not have automatic transmission-a piece of machinery that the Chinese have yet to master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reporter's Second Looks | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...winters ago Leif Rosenberger and eight other hockey players were in a car accident driving home from a post-game celebration. When the police arrived at the scene of the accident, they asked Rosenberger if a black sedan had driven his car off the road. Rosenberger replied yes, a lie. The police then agreed to give him and his friends a lift to the Pi Eta Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rosenberger: A Two-Sport Letterman | 3/29/1972 | See Source »

...then neither are the other motivations in The Jerusalem File interference from Pleasence and Williamson and several ominous appearances by the black sedan. The students drive across the dunes to meet their fate, and the movie ends as it began: badly. Raoul Coutard's photography, however, is very easy on the eyes, as is Daria Halprin, modeling the latest in kibbutz sportswear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books and Bullets | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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