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...gray Cadillac was going more than 50 m.p.h. when it swerved off the road onto a Little League field in Riverside, Ill. By the time the car rolled to a stop, the bodies of children and parents were strewn across the infield. Ambulances came whooping and screeching to Loyola's McGaw Hospital, 23 blocks away, and the trauma team went to work. Research shows that if basic life support is used on serious trauma victims within four minutes and advanced life support within eight, nearly 50% of them survive. McGaw beat the averages. The first child was in cardiac arrest...
...CADILLAC MAN Directed by Roger Donaldson; Screenplay by Ken Friedman...
...Robin Williams) before, most recently in Tin Men. He is the scuzzball salesman of every consumer's nightmares. For him, selling is more than a job and less than an honorable passion; it is not unlike date rape, against which neither resistance nor entreaty is an effective countermeasure. In Cadillac Man, he is discovered pulling up to a stalled funeral procession, to see if he can unload a replacement hearse on the desperate undertaker. While he's at it, he takes a shot at selling the bereaved widow one of his luxury cars, coyly suggesting it might be a nice...
...them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...
...Headlines," March 10]: When the women's polo team takes to the field this spring it will not be for the first time. Polo began at Radcliffe in the fall of 1927 as part of the riding program. Enthusiasm was so high among the experienced riders that an old Cadillac stopped by the dorms at 6:15 a.m. three times a week to ferry riders to Glenfield Stables in West Medford. Plans were made for a varsity team, but so far no records have turned up about intercollegiate events or matches against Harvard. Anyone who wants to find out more...