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...point at a professional basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cincinnati Royals. Learning that the mother of Elgin ("The Rabbit") Baylor, the Lakers' 6-ft. 5-in. Negro star, worked as an Interior Department Mimeograph operator, Udall picked up the Baylor family in his official Cadillac and took them to the game. During intermission, Udall, who was once a star basketballer himself, tried a trial shot and missed...
...liners, as when he calls Man-Tan "instant Mau Mau," and sometimes he lapses into corn, but mainly he tells stories with a sharp point. He says that white people often wonder how colored people, who have such low-paying jobs, can afford to own Cadillacs. Well, first there is that $500-a-year saving on the country club, another $1,500 a year on the Florida vacation-and so on into the driver's seat of a Cadillac...
...somewhat adding insult to injury, giving Secretary of Defense McNamara a chauffeur-driven Cadillac after that huge loss of Ford income? The least compensation should be a chauffeur-driven Lincoln...
...plenty to worry about-over and above the fact that no one any longer loves him. The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built." The fat man has trouble buying life insurance or has to pay higher premiums. He has-for unclear reasons-a 25% higher death rate from cancer. He is particularly vulnerable to diabetes. He may find...
After an Army stint in Europe during World War II, Downing decided to become an optometrist because the only optometrist he had ever known back home was rich enough to own a Cadillac. But while he was completing his studies in Chicago, he fell in with a group of young writers and painters whose nightlong talk of art and life intoxicated him. He attended classes at the Art Institute, in 1950 scraped together enough money to get to Paris. Except for an occasional trip home, he has lived there ever since...