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...handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building a new mosque over Mohammed's tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded Simca in 1934 and ruled it with an iron hand until Chrysler bought control of it this year. The former president of state-owned Sud Aviation, Héreil became...
...bare, spare autos of postwar Europe, which sparked the American revolution in favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...
...Ecole Militaire on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Paris gendarmes swarmed over the ground, searching the buildings for weapons and interrogating officer students and teachers. De Gaulle showed up next day on schedule, but (in a concession to danger rare for him) cooped up inside an armored Citroën limousine with bulletproof windows. According to the official story from Sûieté headquarters on the Rue des Saus-saies, police had discovered a plot on a civilian's tip, in the nick of time. After interrogating the five suspects, the police indicated that the triggerman...
...movie goddess. Affair's scenario is creepily Bardographical. It tells the story of a simple girl who doesn't enjoy being a movie idol. She signs autographs as if on her own death warrant, views mobs of admirers from the back seat of her white Citroën like some tumbrel-borne Marie Antoinette, hysterically adopts a lover-of-the-week policy. Finally, after fainting in the midst of a rabble of fans who are chanting her name outside a movie house, she speeds back home to Geneva, determined to give it all up. There she plops into...
...Point. Last week the, Reds struck again, and in a way calculated to emphasize their defiance of world opinion. On Sunday morning, Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam, 56, set off in his chauffeur-driven Citroën to visit his small farm, some twelve miles north of Saigon. Colonel Nam is not only a soldier in South Viet Nam's army; for the past seven years he has served as his nation's chief liaison officer with the International Control Commission, manned by a Canadian, an Indian and a Pole. The I.C.C. is supposed to "verify" the observance...