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...party's second-in-command. Named Transportation Minister, he also became a Minister of State, one of the five highest ranking Cabinet officers. Other new ministers arrived at the Elysée in sleek, gray, chauffeur-driven Citroëns, but Fiterman rolled up behind the wheel of his own tiny brown Renault-with a team of TV reporters huddled in back. Interviewed after his appointment, Fiterman bristled at suggestions that Communist ministers would give state secrets to the Soviets. Said he: "Nobody has the moral right to question our loyalty to France...
...ironies abounded. A fresh-faced American missileman exclaimed with Boy Scout enthusiasm that his task of getting ready to launch a Minuteman at a Soviet target gave him "more responsibility than I could obtain in a civilian world." Commenting on film showing a C-5A cargo plane losing a wheel during a landing, a Lockheed official remarked. "With respect to the wheel coming off, I don't like that...
Getting in the way of traffic is a more pressing worry. Police are braced for what could be an audio-accident season this summer, with stereo-deaf sportsmen crossing the paths of oncoming cars. As for those behind the wheel, many states prohibit driving with both ears blocked, but few enforce such laws. "Motorists al ready listen to car radios that are so loud they can't hear our sirens," says Michigan State Policeman Wayne McKalpain. "If they put on headphones, they'll hamper our ability to respond to emergencies...
...best way to rebuild profits is for Detroit to produce the kind of cars that the American public wants. GM's new J-cars, a line of front-wheel-drive small autos, represent the strongest effort yet to attack the successful Japanese models. Said Robert Lund, the general manager of GM's Chevrolet division: "We're tired of hearing about how the domestic auto industry let the Japanese take the subcompact business away from us. The whole Chevrolet organization is spoiling for a fight...
Neither Ford nor Chrysler will be coming out this spring with a totally new line to match the GM J-cars, but both companies are introducing sporty versions of existing front-wheel-drive subcompacts. Ford has launched its first two-seater models since the 1957 Thunderbird: the Ford EXP and the Mercury LN7. The cars are smartly designed versions of the successful Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, which were introduced last fall. Though they have a Government fuel-economy rating of 29 m.p.g. in city driving, the anemic performance of their 1.6-liter engine is hardly up to sports...