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...integration of the University of Alabama. The film unfolds like a drama. With pictures of Robert Kennedy and his family at a birth-day party in Bobby's house, of George Wallace's baby daughter thinking piano and kissing father, of Vivian Malone and James Hood in a Cadillac an route to school, and of President Kennedy, tired and pensive, the principal characters are introduced. The opening of the story was shot the morning of June 10, early, when the South was calm. On his way out the door that morning, Governor Wallace exchanged an affectionate greeting with his Negro...
...talked on, the invitations kept piling up, at one point numbered 80. Although she canceled several TV appearances, including one with David Susskind, the brutal schedule began telling on her. At suburban Sarah Lawrence College, she had to rest for ten minutes before emerging from her chauffeured Cadillac, gulped pills while onstage. But she kept going. Looking wan and shaky, she went to Fordham University, got an enthusiastic reception from 5,000 students at the Jesuit school. "This can make up for all the vicissitudes, all the sadness I have met here so far," said she. But the next...
...Yujiro drove away in another car. He has a Mercedes 300-SL, a Japanese Cedric, a Chevrolet and a Fleetwood Cadillac. He also owns two racing sloops, a twin-engined powerboat, and controlling interests in Tokyo businesses with assets totaling $5 million. And, Fujiyama Mia, he is an executive in a firm that plans to bring trading stamps to Tokyo. He formed his own film company last January, and has just completed My Enemy, the Sea, shot on location in Japan, Hawaii and California, and based on the adventures...
...Bennie Rogers, who also chairs Morton's only bank, owns its main stores and has 1,000 head of cattle grazing on 3,500 Mississippi acres that are enriched by fertilizer from his chickens. Rogers lives in a 25-room house and trades in his white, air-conditioned Cadillac for a new model every year; but he is concerned over sales because the Common Market's recent high tariff rise has cut his exports from 250,000 Ibs. to 15,000 Ibs. a month. Complains Rogers: "We taught them how to fry chicken, and now they stab...
...uncle soon backed out, but Charles and Fred sent for their other brothers to join them. The brothers made their biggest contribution to the auto industry by designing the first closed auto body, which turned motoring into an all-year instead of just a summer pastime. After Cadillac became the first to order the closed bodies, in 1910, the brothers rapidly expanded, earning a reputation for honesty and skilled craftsmanship. General Motors, their biggest customer, bought them out in 1926, paying the brothers $208 million in G.M. stock. They became key G.M. officers, helped to run the firm...