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...remarkable murder trial, concerning, as most do, lust and money, but also involving such elements as wife swapping and credit ratings, such characters as a self-styled lady killer, a brash mistress and a hysterical maid, such props as a "do-it-yourself murder kit" and a gift Cadillac-and centering around Finch's wife Barbara, found dead last summer with a bullet in her back and three skull fractures. On trial with Finch for her murder was his mistress, Carole Tregoff...
...armistice agreement," permitting them to date on the side. To protect his credit rating while he was dickering on the "deal" to build his hospital, they decided to postpone a divorce and to present a public facade of married bliss. To seal the bargain, he gave her a new Cadillac. In September, Carole left her husband, a muscleman named Jimmy Pappa, who proceeded to give Barbara Finch an earful about Bernie's other life. Barbara then decided to start divorce proceedings herself. As a counterattack, Finch explained, he hired an "unscrupulous gigolo." John Cody was engaged, he said...
...months or years of hearings before railroads may drop obsolete runs. The New York Central struggled for five years to drop its West Shore line. It was losing $3,000,000 annually-enough, said the Central's president, Alfred Permian, "to have provided a Chevrolet, if not a Cadillac, for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Railroad unions also add to costs by featherbedding, and full-crew laws in 16 states force the roads to employ men they consider unnecessary, last year cost the Central $5,000,000 in New York State alone...
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After the landings, there was still some question whether Lebanese troops would open fire as the U.S. Marines prepared to move from the beaches into Beirut. Ambassador McClintock politely but firmly put the Lebanese military commander into his embassy Cadillac; up front he placed an embassy guard with Golly, McClintock's poodle. The Cadillac moved ahead of the column of marines, and the ambassador was proved right in his assumption that nobody would fire on a poodle...