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...roll disk for Columbia, passed out free Florida oranges in Times Square, sounded off to reporters on everything from urban renewal ("If I lived in Harlem, I'd move to Long Island") to his relations with the opposite sex: "Like you take a guy cruising along in a Cadillac with $10,000 in the pockets of his mohair suit. He's got it made. Then a woman crosses the street, and what happens? Bang! He smashes...
...Dearborn and Grosse Pointe, where the chances of being spotted by a photographer are slight.) When Buhlie cast his eye on the fire-engine-red Mustang in the family garage, he could not resist taking a spin, then somewhat carelessly parked the car in a lot near the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, one of downtown Detroit's busiest spots. As Buhlie left the parking lot, he told the attendant...
...candidate than the noncandidates themselves, admitted to Harvard's Young Republicans that he was "at the bottom of the totem pole" in New Hampshire. Even that was an understatement. And in Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney breakfasted with Pennsylvania's Scranton in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, and each tried to persuade the other to jump into the race. Scranton said he would be simply "delighted" if Romney would run. Romney said, "I would be delighted if Governor Scranton would." All in all, said Scranton afterward, "it was sort of an Alphonse and Gaston act." The only...
...next morning, seated comfortably in the back seat of a Cadillac, Richard J. Daley rode through the swirling snow of Cambridge to take a look at Harvard. An extremely serious man, the Mayor has been called "Buddha" because of his tendency to sit impassively and listen. But at any mention of cities, politics or both, he quickly becomes animated...
...Liberia's 20-odd tribes brought with them retinues of up to 30 people, including wives, children, relatives, and entertainers such as dancers and drummers. In the streets, delirious crowds held arches of flowers and hurled bushels of confetti as Tubman whirled proudly through the streets in his Cadillac convertible during the inauguration festivities. Applause greeted every pronouncement in his inaugural address until he came to the final ringing sentence: "I enter upon the execution of the sacred task to which I have been called for the fifth and, I earnestly hope, for the last time." That brought stunned...