Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local fund raising, hotel space and the shadow of the ITT affair, the Republicans reluctantly abandoned San Diego, Richard Nixon's "lucky city" and sentimental first choice. The logical alternative seemed to be Miami Beach, where the Democrats will caucus beginning July 10. An immediate problem was a Buick dealers' convention, slated for the August slot the Republicans were loath to change. Buick quickly agreed to move, and will likely end up in San Diego, where the prevailing joke round town is: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Miami Beach officials were reluctant to offer...
...shoplifting in order to devote full time to her husband, and Adam--realizing this means that he can have his wife and inanimate objects too--begins planning for a new baby and a new car, code-named the Farstar. (The baby, one presumed, will have to settle for Buick.) Adam and Erica kiss, in a car, in a driveway...
...much for little Buick, who won't see Poppa again until his sixteenth birthday, when he's presented with the keys to a 1987 Farstar Supreme with racing-striped window wipers and 792 cc's, shortly after which popps dies of a coronary in a traffic jam under the flaming spark plug, his last sight on earth being those electronic words, "Use A.C. Sparks and Watch Bonanza Every Sunday." But we leave this to Jacqueline Susanne...
...Possible. A man of rigid habits, "Gianni" Bucher had left his house in a residential section of Rio at precisely 8:45 a.m., and followed precisely the same route he always took for the 15-minute trip downtown to the Swiss embassy. As his big Buick cruised down a busy street, half-a-dozen gunmen in two cars forced it to a screeching halt. They mortally wounded Bucher's Brazilian bodyguard when he appeared to be reaching for a pistol, then pushed the ambassador into a waiting car and roared off. The last thing the chauffeur heard Bucher...
After a quick view of the remains, the police approached the aquarist and asked him if he would take it away. Sieswerda later said, "I told them, 'I got a '53 Buick and I just couldn't get too much of it in,' so I figured I'd take the head 'cause it looked to be the most interesting...