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Lincoln's designer cars typify one side of today's schizophrenic auto market. Recession or no, sales of big luxury cars are booming; Cadillac's $12,479 "international size" Seville helped carry total Cadillac sales to an alltime monthly record of 25,000 cars in July. But standard-sized cars are gathering dust on dealer lots, because the swing of more budget-conscious buyers to smaller, lighter models that are stingier on gas is developing more quickly than Detroit had expected. This year for the first time, small cars have captured more than 50% of the market...
...Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a lifelong Anglophile, recently observed: "In America, the workingman will see someone drive by in his Cadillac and he'll say, 'That guy has a Cadillac and I don't. Some day I am going to have two Cadillacs.' In Britain, the instant reaction is: 'That man has a Rolls-Royce and I don't. He is going to come down to my level...
Charles Oscar Finley, owner, president, general manager and remote-control field manager of the Oakland A's. was on a typical tear. "Get this crate rolling," he ordered. Chauffeur Howard Risner nosed the sleek black Cadillac into the moving traffic and headed toward Chicago's O'Hare Airport. "Shoot the works," said Finley. Risner hit a button, and downtown Chicago echoed to the Caddie's musical horn. "Now the siren," demanded Finley. A muted wail sent other cars skittering for the curb. Finley switched on a loudspeaker hidden beneath the hood and began broadcasting a stream of chatter to startled...
...days in the prison work gang hauling hog manure as he served a one-to-20-year manslaughter sentence for having killed a numbers racketeer who had doublecrossed him. Released in September 1971 after four years in jail, he now rides to work in a chauffeured 21-ft. Cadillac limousine. For that work he rents a choice office suite: the $85,000-a-year, eight-room penthouse atop the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. That eyrie high above Manhattan is symbolic of King's position as the most audacious and suddenly the most powerful promoter in sport...
...Senior Vice President Joseph J. Johnston insists that the donations could play a crucial educational role. "It would be useful," he says, "if Americans had a little better understanding of Arabs as a people. Everyone thinks of Arabs as living in a tent with four wives or driving a Cadillac. The Arab is hardly any different from...