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...little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky drew closer for ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 66, now tending his manifold private interests in Seattle. The State Supreme Court of Washington upheld his conviction for pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac that was owned by the trusting Teamsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Pontiacs, though still wide-tracked, will also be shortened. Even Cadillac will nip inches off the length of most models. The functional lines of the compacts will be reflected in big-car styling, although Cadillac will stick with its fins. The new look will feature rolled edges and soft curves, with the trend away from bigness and sharp-flaring, winglike fenders. The public is expected to be pleased-but the industry also has its own economy in mind. Detroit makes less profit on the compacts than on standard-size cars, and sells fewer additional gadgets on them. By reducing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1961-Model Preview | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...left-wing toughs. Some 2,000 police surged forward to separate the combatants, while the sedate elders looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled to drive the same route with Emperor Hirohito by his side. All three cars bowled along at high speed, but as the Cadillac emerged from the underpass and ascended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Mob | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...Cadillac swerved to the right and stopped; the two Fords halted bumper to bumper behind it. Instantly the squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Mob | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

When his red Cadillac tools into the little Italian town of Sambuco. the apostle of the groin meets the sultan of sauce. When he is not fearsomely hallucinated or agonizingly hung over from his binges, Cass Kinsolving rants at his century. He predictably hates the U.S., Ike, commercialism, conformity and just about everything except the recordings of the late Leadbelly, which he plays by the hour while his wife and four children go hungry. The knave in Mason strikes a bargain with the fool in Cass, and with almost inadvertent demonism, they destroy an innocent girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empty Soul Blues | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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