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Hurtling his Cadillac down a serpentine road outside Munich, heavy-footed Cinemactor Horst Buchholz, 27, unwillingly dubbed "the Teutonic James Dean," careened out of control and wrapped the white convertible around a tree. Thrown free and found crawling with one hand to his stomach, the blood-smeared star of Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (which was just 2½ shooting days from completion) was carted to Munich University Clinic, where emergency surgery repaired serious abdominal injuries. Next morning, relieved to hear that his promising property would be back before the cameras by mid-October and with nary...
...morning last week, a big man in a wide-brimmed Panama hat got out of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac and pushed his way through the swinging back door of the eleven-story San Francisco office building that Westerners, half in awe and half in bitterness, used to call "The Capitol of California." As usual, Donald Joseph McKay Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific Co.. was hustling to get to work before 8 o'clock. Explained the top man on the world's most flourishing railroad: "It's an old railroad operating man's habit...
With an ignominious "L" (for learner) adjoining its New Jersey license plates, a beige, cruiser-sized 1960 Cadillac painfully navigated the narrow lanes of ancient Sevenoaks, Kent, 20 miles from London. At the helm having a go at the British driver's test: the richest American, Oilman J. Paul Getty, 68, a 50-year road veteran who had let his U.S. license expire. After successfully wheeling through the test despite the handicap of his outsized chariot, the thriftiest of billionaires solemnly explained: "I drove this because it's the only...
...snorted that such corny humor titillates only the many who are ignorant about the Government's farm program, but he quickly demonstrated that he was not above taking part in similar stunts himself. Five Illinois corn and soybean farmers got so mad reading about Farmer Smith's Cadillac that they jumped into a 1959 Chevrolet, drove all night and arrived in Washington the next afternoon to complain that Smith was not really a farmer at all, and was "creating a bad impression on city folks." The travelers were a motley band two were Republicans, three were members...
...explain why well-off Mr. Smith should be made more well off by the Government at the taxpayers' expense-and for not working. But at week's end. the Government moved to make him just a mite less affluent. Freeman's Agriculture Department fined Cadillac Smith $321.84 for planting 7.1 acres more wheat last year than allowed by his 18.9-acre quota...