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Tears on the Air. A frugal patriarch who kept only one wife and one Cadillac, Sheik Abdullah became a sugar daddy to other Arab nations by financing their projects with giant loans ($470 million last year). So it was that when he died at 70 last week from congestive heart failure, that much of the Arab world joined in Kuwait's mourning...
Princess Margaret, however, evaded her admirers for sightseeing jaunts in a red Cadillac convertible and aboard a yacht in San Francisco Bay. Giggled one British official's wife, watching newsmen trying to keep pace...
...Jones, 37-year-old Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the Ku Klux Klan, lives mighty high on the hog. Though he never progressed past grammar school and has worked until recently as a lightning-rod salesman, Jones, who lives in Granite Quarry, N.C., drives a 1964 Cadillac as well as a 1964 station wagon, and seemingly has plenty of spending money. Soon, if all turns out as planned, Night Rider Jones will become a night flyer...
Some Porsche addicts even go in for a form of reverse snobbery, put Porsche engines in Volkswagens. One such car is owned by Actor Paul Newman, three more by Racing Buff Art Sparks of Pasadena. "It's a great satisfaction," says Sparks, "to come up behind a Cadillac on a hill on the way to Las Vegas, let him have the horn and go breezing by. They wonder what happened...
Dragons Jones and Kornegay were not much better off. Jones was accused of using Klan funds to buy a Cadillac and a station wagon, making personal use of a fund raised for a Klansman indicted in a bombing, and pocketing outrageous profits on sales of satin Klan robes-without turning in a corporate-tax return. Kornegay, it appeared, had been forced to flee to Virginia from North Carolina, where, as lecturer for the Klan, he had set up an insurance company, sold policies to Klansmen, then failed to reimburse them when the company was disbanded...