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...tried to light a fire under a bridge, but it didn't catch solid enough. A cowboy picked me up and left me at some cowboy exit: I was alone for too long. I scratched out an SOS sign, and after a few trucks ground by, a gold Cadillac slowed down but wouldn't let me near until I explained the sign. I guess I looked desperate, so they let me in a couple that was going straight to Chicago I didn't learn that the driver had been speeding for two days--ever since he'd left L.A.--until...
...were warmly welcomed there last week. In Faribault, Minn., John and Margaret Kennedy had eleven new Vietnamese faces-two adults and nine children -around the kitchen table in their small, two-bedroom house. In Tulsa, Okla., a gas-station owner, E.A. Stehle, set off with his wife in their Cadillac Eldorado for Fort Chaffee, determined to do what he could to help a Vietnamese family. Before the day was out, they returned with Colonel Nguyen Bang and eight members of his family wedged in the car. "We have to do what we think is right," said Stehle, who undertook...
...four hours, crusty Graham Martin, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, tried vainly to get through to South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu on the telephone. The next day he hopped into his black Cadillac limousine for the short six-block drive down Unity Boulevard from the U.S. embassy to Thieu's gleaming Independence Palace. The President was in, and Martin was grim. For months he had been the most diehard American supporter of Thieu. Now he had a bitter task. He was conveying a message that had originated with the Viet Cong's representatives in Paris: beginning...
...being spoiled, and that car is a treat to ride around in," allowed Actor Ben Gazzara after driving to the Chicago premiere of Capone in Big Al's own Cadillac limousine. The six-ton, bulletproof car, built in 1928 and later used by President Franklin Roosevelt, had been specially shipped in for the premiere from its permanent display place in Niagara Falls, Canada. "I'd love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra...
...responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar's bulletproof Cadillac, his meals, his afternoons at the race tracks, and inherited the bulk of his $551,500 estate when Hoover died...