Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, former Ambassador to the U.N. and former Congressman from Houston, unfolds himself from his seat and steps down onto the tarmac. No cheering throngs greet him. Unperturbed, he shakes hands with his few supporters. Then Bush climbs into a large black Cadillac owned by Lee Holt, Spencer's premier car dealer. Holt and Bush cruise off into the failing light, down arrow-straight roads, past cornfields dusted with the season's first snow...
Three times last week, the long black Cadillac limousine glided into the underground garage beneath the State Department; three times Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin slipped into a private elevator and rode up to the seventh-floor office of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. After each meeting, both diplomats avoided reporters' questions. There had already been far too much threatening and ill-considered rhetoric about the problem that confronted them: the controversial role of Soviet combat troops in Cuba...
...know I was sitting in the restaurant across from their place the other day," he continues, "and I saw Moon pull up there in a brand new 1979 Cadillac. Boy, you should have seen them bow and scrape. You know they don't hang around bars or anything...they keep a pretty low profile. Basically, they bow and scrape...
...Andover, Mass., an agency has been giving free $4,500 Chevettes to buyers of $18,000 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritzes. In San Francisco, a dealer has advertised Dodge vans at a penny above the factory invoice price. In Fairfax, Va., a Chrysler-Plymouth agency offered car buyers a minimum trade-in allowance for anything on four wheels. Said the firm ads: LET'S MAKE A DEAL! ROLL IT IN! TOW IT IN! $800. Nonetheless, salesmen across the country are having more trouble moving big cars these days than at any time since the recession...
...nominal sums, usually about $200. It is not complaining. Said Spokeswoman Elaine Lewis: "It takes a lot of used clothing to bring in $200." One of Los Angeles' Salvation Army divisions, which is housed in a former Ford factory, accepted eleven gift cars one week, including a 1941 Cadillac and a 1970 Coupe de Ville with power steering, power windows and power brakes. The latter was owned by a middle-aged doctor, who walked in one morning and asked General Supervisor Richard Hilt: "Do you want this car?" Recalled Hilt: "When I said yes, he gave me the keys...