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...world's largest automaker has a total of 223 plants, which assembled some 9.3 million cars, trucks and buses last year. The facilities marked for closure produced roughly 600,000 cars and trucks for 1986, and include the company's oldest factory still in operation, a 67-year- old Cadillac Fleetwood plant in Detroit. As Smith pointed out, six new GM plants, in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Louisiana (four open, one due to begin production next month and one scheduled for 1987), have replaced much of the aged capacity...
...also monitors and censors the various types of entertainment that play in the Square's smallest theater. When a bunch of drunken men wearing Harvard football jackets begin insulting women and cursing, Karl responds. "Cut it out, this is a PG joint," he yells above the din of "Pink Cadillac" by Aretha Franklin...
...look at it with mixed emotions," Lou Goldstein was saying. His lean, humorous face was at half-mast. "It's like watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff -- in your new Cadillac...
...meet the requirements, GM had threatened to close some of its big-car factories, including Detroit's Clark Street Cadillac factory and the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird plant in Van Nuys, Calif. The company organized a letter-writing drive among more than 10,000 workers, local officials and state legislators that resulted in a cascade of mail to the Transportation Department during the past year. A GM statement last week said that the Government's leniency was "good news for American consumers and autoworkers" and "in keeping with the requirements of both the law and the real world." That...
...outing at the local shopping mall. Dinner is a family affair with everybody present. The conversation ranges from Little League to books and movies to local gossip. King can drive to New York City for meetings with his publishers in one of two Mercedes, or in a red Cadillac convertible or in a Chevy van, but once or twice a year he prefers to vroom south on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Neither of the Kings likes to fill up any of their vehicles. A brother-in-law who acts as handyman and caretaker attends to the cars...