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Word: eldorado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1969s. In the year of déjà vu, the only completely redesigned full-sized car is the Lincoln, which, among other things, now has a body bolted to the frame for a quieter ride. Several cars have more powerful engines; the biggest of all is the Cadillac Eldorado's, at 500 cu. in. The Plymouth Barracuda is one of the few cars that have had enough sheet-metal changes to give the body a new look. The game of hide-and-seek has taken a new turn. Disappearing headlights have been dropped on all G.M. cars except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Thunking Man's Car | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...best thing about Baltimore," according to Comedian Mark Russell, "is the tunnel that runs under it." Nonetheless, its garish strip clubs and clip joints make it one of America's favorite ports of call for sex-starved sailors and roistering conventioneers. If it is something of an Eldorado for the fun-seeking male, the city's seedy 19th century core is also a nightmare for a reform-minded police commissioner and city planners, who in recent years have managed to replace 22 depressed acres of slums with office buildings, hotels and theaters. The city's present target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: REQUIEM FOR THE BLOCK | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Schull, 24, is the leading rebounder for rival Eldorado, an ice cream company in Bologna. The N.B.A. it isn't; yet for American players unwilling or unable to buck the stiff competition at home, Europe is indeed an Eldorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Anyone for Pallacanestro? | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...line of elegantly customized Lincolns, originally conceived by Edsel Ford. It will be produced only in a two-door model, which will weigh in at $8,000. The pitch is clearly for buyers who until now have fallen for luxury hot-rods like Cadillac's front-wheel-drive Eldorado. To win them to Continental-or at least lure them into a Lincoln-Mercury showroom-Ford's engineers and stylists have aimed at "elegant perfection." Says Marketing and Product Planning Manager Ralph L. Peters: "We're going all the way with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Stalking the Mark III | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...good year before she reached Eldorado in Bonnie and Clyde, Actress Faye Dunaway, 27, signed a six-picture deal with Producer-Director Otto Preminger, well known as the fastest litigant in the West. One turkey was born of that union-Hurry Sundown -and Faye went her own way to stardom. Now Preminger wants her back under the terms of their contract, and filed suit in New York complaining that she failed to show up for work as ordered for the beginning of a new picture. Otto wants damages, plus an injunction that would keep her from working for anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 19, 1968 | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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