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...travel around Rome, the girls, along with Gigli and his photographic gear, piled into a large Cadillac that the driver liked to boast once belonged to Pope John. When they moved to the island of Rhodes, they had to hire donkeys to carry themselves and their equipment up the steep approach to the temple of Athena at Lindos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 16, 1969 | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Billy lives through the war merely because he happens not to die in it, then becomes a husband and a prosperous optometrist for equally random reasons. He acquires a Reagan-stickered Cadillac and a son named Robert, who graduates from failure as a high school alcoholic to "the famous Green Berets" and becomes a fine young man, fighting in Viet Nam. The only trouble is that Billy sometimes just can't keep from bursting into tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Price of Survival | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...Saturday March 22, Paul Georgiou emerged nude from a Cadillac limousine in front of the East Village's Free Store Theater. The chauffeur displayed icy aplomb but a policeman blinked. Shortly thereafter, Georgiou was onstage in the same costume playing the President of the U.S. The instantly notorious theatrical enterprise involved is known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Faking It | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...years she and Curtis traipsed around Europe just ahead-but not too far ahead-of the photographers. By his count, their chauffeur banged up four Cadillac limousines outrunning the press. Raquel took to carrying a water pistol so that she could drill an occasional paparazzo who leaned in the car a little too far. But what could one do? Journalists were everywhere. Was it her fault that she kept getting shot in bikinis and microskirts and plunging necklines? Was she to blame if some 80 magazines put her on their covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Sea of C Cups | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...unmistakably not Jewish. A Negro will frequently refer to his "Jew landlord" even though the man's name may be O'Reilly, Karwolski or Santangelo. In black areas of Detroit, white storekeepers are often called "Goldberg," even though many shops are owned by Iraqis and Syrians. And a Cadillac, even if it is owned by a wealthy Negro, is still known as a "Jew canoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Black and the Jew: A Falling Out of Allies | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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