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Morse speaks more cautiously about purchasing more computer equipment. "There are certainly things we're doing manually now that we could be using automation for," he says, mentioning accounting and word-processing as examples. "But we have what we need now. We don't have a Cadillac computer, with a lot of stuff we don't need...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Fighting Crime in the Computer Age | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

...when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley, with a weight-mocking song called Just One More Jelly Doughnut, whose background refrain went, "He's gonna pop!" a Press-Scimitar columnist was actually begging in the paper for Elvis to give him a Cadillac. The singer was not moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: Death of an Afternoon | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...precautions were all for naught. As Heineken was leaving his office early one evening last week, three masked men suddenly jumped on him and dragged him toward an orange Peugeot minivan. When Chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, leaped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to save his boss, he too was beaten and abducted. Coolly following a well-rehearsed plan, the criminals whizzed through downtown Amsterdam, switched to a Citroen getaway car and vanished into the night. Police later discovered bloodstains on the deserted van and two Uzi submachine guns near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Bad Fortune | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Even among those who are aware that something big is on the way, there is gnawing concern that telephone service will suffer. Says Yale Professor Stephen Ross, an expert on telecommunications: "We may be trading in a Cadillac for a Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Prestige attached to garages re mains unsettled, but the family car had better not be a Mercedes, Rolls or Cadillac. Fussell assures us that the best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of your residences is in a place so unpublic that the roads to it are not even paved, "indeed are hardly passable by your ordinary vulgar automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Elite Don't Meet | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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