Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France changes Cabinets, constitutions and women's fashions faster than any major country in the world. But one French institution has remained almost as steadfast as the Eiffel Tower: the nation's favorite automobile. For 21 years, the Citroën has been the same familiar model, a low design well ahead of its time, with independent wheel suspension and front-wheel drive. Until 1951 it came in only one color-black; then it reluctantly added grey, grey-black and blue-black. Nevertheless, since 1934 Frenchmen have bought more than 1,000,000 Citro...
Citroën threw money around on lavish living, promoted his cars in a manner unheard of in France. He organized a Citroën expedition to Central Asia, another across the Sahara Desert, and put his name in lights on the Eiffel Tower-280,000 bulbs winking in letters 100 ft. high...
...wines. Pierre Michelin, tycoon of Michelin Tire Co., France's largest tiremakers, who had bought up an estimated 63% of Citroën's stock, told André Citroën: "Monsieur, you have nothing more to do here." Citroën lost the company, the Eiffel Tower lights winked out, and six months later Citroën died...
Having gazed for a decade, however, at a barren tower, outraged and sentimental alumni have finally prodded the Corporation to finance a restoration of the Civil War memorial to the original vision of its architects, Ware and van Brunt...
More practical still, considering the crowds at past lectures by Toynbee and Stevenson, would be the construction of a moat and drawbridge. Other exterior alterations would include the conversion of the parking lot into a stable, the lawn into a tournament field, and the bell tower into a falcon roost. Gargoyles in abundance would smile upon the entire scene...