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...oversee his casinos, even though Rosenthal's only known previous legitimate business experience was running a Chicago hot-dog stand. A map of Click's estate had been sought by Triggerman DeLuna, according to testimony in the Tropicana case. A bomb exploded under Rosenthal's Cadillac last year. He escaped with slight injuries and moved to California...
Buckley could clearly use a commuter train to reality, but that simply wouldn't do. Whining about the scaling down of the latest model Cadillac limos, Buckley writes. "This simply would not do: I use the car constantly, require the room, privacy, and my own temperature gauge (for the back seat beyond the glass partition.)" But not to stop there, he goes on to detail the "usual market solution" in the form of a company in Texas that chops normal Cadillacs in half, stuffing them with new space and elegance. This "usual market solution" may enthrall the Polo shirt...
...knows will say whether DeLorean quit or was fired in 1973. He had clearly infuriated the GM brass with his high-profile Hollywood lifestyle and outside business interests. But when DeLorean left, he did not do badly. Levin reports that his parting golden handshake with GM included a valuable Cadillac franchise and a year's extension of his $200,000 salary...
...Bach on the harpsichord that offended, or his way with celestial navigation, or the servants, or the phone calls from Ronald Reagan. No: his worst affront seemed to be the custom chopped-and-stretched chauffeur-driven Cadillac with the partition and the special back-seat temperature control. It was not even the fact that William F. Buckley Jr. rides around in such a car, like a Mafia don in his land yacht, that gave some reviewers eczema. It was the way that he wrote about it, with such a blithe air of entitlement. No right-wing intellectual...
Wham! He hit, and last week the retired steelworker from Harrisburg, Pa., got a check for $336,157.56 (with 20% off the top for Uncle Sam), the first of 21 annual payments. Jorich plans to use the money to buy a new Cadillac, a beach house for his wife, a college education for his granddaughter and more lottery tickets. Why? "I need pocket money...