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...second man in all patrolling squad cars and to eliminate lie detector tests for recruits, Chicago's finest started a "job action"; they festooned almost anything that moved with tickets. Even Mayor Richard Daley was outraged. When Alderman Vito Marzullo discovered a ticket on his Cadillac, he was driven to philosophical speculation: "Are they performing their duties now, or have they neglected their duties in the past...
...upheaval in which those values have been betrayed, Theirs is a last ditch effort to fend off the Powers of the unknown ("Can Jesus deliver a drug addict? Can Jesus deliver a homosexual?") and to realize symbolic economic success in traditional ways ("I resolved to use that Cadillac for God.") These survivors of the rural lower middle class put their faith in an authoritarian figure who facilitates an escape from their repression while promising the persistence of a social order in which they believe. Theirs is a war against both the rich and the urban poor, the activist workers...
Last June, apparently on a wild impulse, David J. Hanley, 30, dashed out of a cocktail lounge near St. Louis' Lambert Airport. He got into his 1972 Cadillac convertible and crashed it into an American Airlines 727 jet airliner in a foolhardy attempt to stop a skyjacking then in progress. The skyjacker and his hostage crew merely switched to another plane and took off with $502,500 in ransom (he parachuted safely, but was later arrested). Even so, Hanley was seen by some as a courageous citizen acting boldly to stop a crime...
Then Washington's Center for Auto Safety, which was spawned by Ralph Nader, charged that Cadillac officials had purposely concealed a "life-and-death safety defect" on 1959-60 model cars for nearly 13 years. The problem was in a part called the Pitman arm, a crucial component of the steering system. Center spokesmen said that the metal used in the Pitman arms of more than 200,000 cars was not sufficiently strong and that three people have died in accidents that may have been caused by the faulty part. They also charged that Cadillac officials in 1968 discussed...
...spokesmen insist that the company "has no record or recollection of any meeting concerning a possible recall campaign" on 1959-60 Cadillacs. Nevertheless, Cadillac officials "are conducting a thorough investigation." The center estimates that about 100,000 of the cars are still on the road-impressive testimony to Cadillac's durability. If they are now involved in a recall, their numbers would make a significant addition to an already embarrassing statistic: during the past nine months, Detroit's automakers have recalled more cars than they produced...