Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single ten-day period, of course, is anything but conclusive. Nonetheless, the industry's early-October performance suggests that the 10% tax surcharge has done remarkably little to dampen consumer spending.* With Buick and Oldsmobile improving most, G.M. showed sizable gains in all divisions except Cadillac. Ford fared best with such full-size models as its new LTD, while Lincoln Mercury's biggest gainer was the Cougar, available for the first time in a convertible. Chrysler reported across-the-board gains, paced by Plymouth's ultra-sporty "Road Runner," so-called because of a "beep beep" horn...
...Ambassador John Gordon Mein had just left his residence in the suburbs of Guatemala City after a luncheon honoring a visiting State Department specialist in Central American affairs. He was alone in the rear seat of his chauffeured Cadillac as the big sedan moved north along Avenida la Reforma. A small green Toyota suddenly pulled in front and forced Mein's car to the curb. A red Buick darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine...
...star, and he's right. His flat, nasal shout relies for accompaniment on little more than electronic twangs and a passel of whooping colleagues, while he delivers the ordinary man's poetic visions: "When I first saw you, babe, you nearly made me wreck/My ole '49 Cadillac...
...conflict erupted when one of the city's bright yellow tow trucks stopped at the corner of Beulah and 123rd Street, at the edge of the Glenville ghetto, to haul away a junked 1958 Cadillac. Guns opened up from every side. One of the truckers called for help on his two-way radio...
...aggressor. "Negro men are more hunted than hunter," declares Dr. Maurice F. Freehill, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington. "Black is In this year," beams a Negro Washington. D.C., student and he has been making the most of it. Handsome and athletic, he drives a Cadillac, walks a Doberman pinscher and holds court under the shade trees of Washington's Dupont Circle. He has more white girl friends than he knows what to do with. "They pass me around," he says with amazement. "They think I'm this potent black Adonis, this ebony...