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Breasting the tape at 19 ft. 5 in., the LTD limousine is clearly poaching in Cadillac's backyard. For approximately $9,000 or $2,300 less than a Caddy limousine, the poor man's tycoon gets air conditioning, seating room for eight (with two jump seats) and 300 horses that, Ford claims, will run as quietly as the next man's Rolls-Royce. The extras include a tiny Sony TV and a Princess phone. The LTD already has 50 firm orders, will begin rolling off the assembly line by the end of the year...
That evening, chauffeured black Cadillac limousines came in steady, solemn procession to the west entrance of the White House for an urgent meeting of the National Security Council. In the Cabinet Room, Johnson let the NSC know that the only question was not whether to retaliate, but where. "The worst thing we could possibly do," said the President, "would be to let this go by. It would be a big mistake. It would open the door to a major misunderstanding." He continued: "I want three things: I want a joint attack [including Vietnamese as well as U.S. planes]. I want...
Cassius Clay looks ahead. Not to his next $1,000,000, of course: that is already assured if Sonny Liston can only learn how to drive a Cadillac in a straight line. But after Liston, what? Champion Clay thought he had just the thing: Canada's George Chuvalo, 27, a slabsided, 208-lb. heavyweight who had won 29 out of 39 fights, 23 by knockouts. Chuvalo seemed to be a pressagent's dream: broken-nosed, granite-chinned, he had never been knocked off his feet ("Belt him in the face," said one admirer, "and all he does...
...driver having trouble parking his yellow Cadillac looked familiar, and Denver police moved in for a closer look. Sure enough, there was Sonny Liston, apparently full of yuletide cheer, or so the cops thought. It took ten bulls to wrestle the Big Bear off to city jail, and another two or three deputies to wring out his fingerprints. The prints were hardly necessary. He was nabbed last March for speeding and for packing a concealed pistol, for which he was fined $600 and given a suspended jail sentence. This time the rap is drunken driving, and if convicted...
Pistols in the Basement. Like many an ancient riche, Copeland works at underplaying his wealth in public. He leaves his Cadillac at home and each morning drives himself eight miles to work in a Corvair. But his private pleasures are elegantly expensive: salmon fishing in Scotland, cattle breeding on his 3,000-acre farm in Maryland, duck-shooting parties on the Chesapeake (he keeps his eye sharp on a pistol range in his basement). Copeland is also a gourmet and oenological expert who belongs to Le Tastevin, an exclusive society devoted to fine wines, and he employs a French chef...