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...Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine at the wheel. On her return to Washington, she found her husband waiting for her, sitting in the back seat of his Cadillac. The tanned and radiant First Lady raced through the official welcome-home ceremonies to the waiting car, jumped nimbly over her husband's outstretched legs, and planted an affectionate kiss on his cheek...
...marked down as a stiff; if his shoes are highly polished and he carries an attache case, he is a live one. Among the best tippers, say the Chicago experts, are furniture men, restaurateurs, clothiers and Shriners; the worst are doctors, Lions Club members, traveling salesmen and politicians. Cadillac owners and people with lots of luggage tend to be poor tippers. And perhaps no one is held lower than the "sanitation specialist." the hotel guest who hides in the bathroom when the bellhop arrives with the suitcases...
...thanks to less chrome and more performance. (One competitor calls Buick's mechanical performance this year "about the best in the industry.") Oldsmobile, with a loyal core of repeat buyers, inched up from 5.3% to 5-5%. though its smaller F85 model brought in only a disappointing 1.1%. Cadillac, more conservatively styled than in years past, remained the biggest-selling luxury car, increased its share of the market from...
...citizens, no matter how well-intentioned they may be, to conduct our foreign affairs once could lead to a repetition of it at any time a foreign Communist leader saw fit to take prisoners and then offered to release them, say for 500 electric shavers or a solid-gold Cadillac or 200 tractors...
...France James Gavin, better known locally as deputy commander of Matt Ridgway's hard-nosed 82nd Airborne Division, which liberated the little town of 1,261 to screen the Allied beachhead during the Normandy landings of 1944. Said the ambassador as he clambered out of his official Cadillac last week for a nostalgic slog toward the sea: "I wouldn't have recognized anything in a car. Last time I used this road, I was crawling on my stomach...