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Last week, after announcing at a news conference that he plans to run for Governor next year, Goodie took to the road in his air-conditioned Cadillac, drove some 50 miles from Los Angeles to the sleepy town of San Clemente. Pulling up to the town's community center, where a Republican women's federation waited to hear him, Goodie turned for a moment to his wife Virginia, who had accompanied him. "Honey." he asked, "why don't I just take the salary and the pension and forget about all this?" Without pausing, he continued...
...taxes in January and petty tax annoyances right now. An airline president gripes about the Internal Revenue Bureau's crackdown on convention expenses; a major oil company president is miffed because he now has to pay $500-a-year personal income tax for the use of his company Cadillac...
Though its plants were ringed with grim pickets, and partially assembled autos were still stranded on the production line, Cadillac last week showed off a batch of glistening 1962 models at a Detroit press preview. Before the strike hit G.M. had managed to turn out 7,000 '62 Caddies-enough to give most dealers a car or two for this week's public introduction...
Died. Lawrence Peter Fisher, 72, high-living, art-fancying member of the "Body by Fisher" dynasty who. as vice president of General Motors after Fisher's absorption by G.M.. fathered the now defunct La Salle and the nation's first 16-cylinder car. the 1930 Cadillac V16: of a circulatory failure: in Detroit...
...professional men learned long ago, renting meant none of the headaches of car ownership, and the monthly statements make for handy documentation of business expenses. Some people who have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims Nate Rosenberg of Alert Car Rental (T-Bird, Cadillac convertibles, Continentals, etc.): "The stars make so much money they can't afford a car. I got 'em all: Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Bob Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Conrad Nagel. It's a million-bucks-a-year business...