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House Republican Leader Charles Halleek stormed out of the Capitol, kicked the side of his official Cadillac in anger...
...huge temple, where a mural depicts the River Jordan flowing into the baptismal font. Dr. Billington maintains a simple approach to God and to the world. He works tirelessly for a salary of $145 a week-tithes more than a full share. When church officers tried to press a Cadillac upon him, he refused it with the explanation: "Sure, you gave it to me," he said, "but how will I ever get such a story across to Akron's tire builders? I'll continue to drive that Olds or Buick...
...class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes. He sold his busi ness and moved to Phoenix. Some time in the next two years he began to plan his appointment in Samarra. He scanned the classified ads in the Phoenix papers looking...
Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...
Most weeks, Matsushita goes to his Osaka office only for Monday business conferences. From there he is driven in his long black Cadillac (his only bit of ostentation) to a modest Kyoto town house where he occupies himself until Friday with his "old man's toy": the PHP, or Peace and Happiness through Prosperity Institute, which he set up in the desperate days after the war. In the monastic atmosphere of the institute's serene gardens, he sips tea, eats flower-petal cakes, and holds seminars with his three young research fellows, discussing how best to use abundance...