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...alliterative and unlikely combination of Cadillacs, Chevrolets and corn stirred Capitol Hill last week as New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating took to the Senate floor to defend the well-publicized trip of a Mr. Smith, who went to Washington in a Cadillac bought with federal money he got for not growing corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take 104 acres of his poorest corn land out of production. He picked up his advance Government check for $3,049, used it as a down payment on a new, bronze $6,100 Cadillac, promised to pay the balance with another $3,451 check due from the Government at season's end. He dressed up the rear end of his new car with a sign reading

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...cast-iron engine as well as the current aluminum V8; the Six's price will drop to compete with other compacts, and it, too, will lose its pointy look. The bigger Buick, newly squared, will come in a hardtop convertible model for the first time. Cadillac will have no radical new figure, except that its tailfins will be clipped somewhat, straightening out the sharp look in the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The 1962 Pizazz | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...Know It division is hardly more impressive; the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, and the earth's temperature rises to a toasty 173°. Voyage, however, does creditably in Wires, Dials and Doodads; there is an atomic submarine almost as gorgeous as a producer's Cadillac, with a control room like a Parisian pinball machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Squid Food | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Overwhelming Role. With that, he climbed into a Cadillac to receive the greatest reception in Manila's history. An estimated 2,000.000 wildly cheering Filipinos lined the ten-mile route from the airport to Manila's Malacanan Palace, where MacArthur and his wife Jean were to stay. Even MacArthur, never one to view his own role in history lightly, seemed impressed. "Overwhelming," he gasped. Bands greeted him with Old Soldiers Never Die, the venerable barracks tune he applied to himself when Truman recalled him from Korea in 1951 for defiantly insisting that the war should be carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Sentimental Journey | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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