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Sober again (and sober still), he made more money, but, as his wife Joyce observes, "Bob and money don't get along. One time we had a Cadillac and an airplane, but I didn't have a cup that matched a saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Captain steers his sleek black '83 Cadillac into the neighborhood known as Alphabet Town on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...rollover crashes proved to be the final blow. By the mid-1970s, convertibles had become rarities. American Motors stopped making them in 1967, Chrysler in 1971, Ford in 1973, Chevy in 1975. Finally, on April 21, 1976, what was then called the last American convertible rolled off the Cadillac assembly line, with Detroit Mayor Coleman Young as a passenger. The car was a white Eldorado with red-and-blue pinstriping, commemorating -and attempting to make a profit from - the Bicentennial. Two hundred of those cars were made, each selling for about $11,000 ($25,000 in today's dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deciding to Go Topless | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...bonuses. A customer who rents a Hertz car 40 times for four days or longer, for example, will build up enough credits to earn all of the following: a Texas Instruments home computer, four 16-oz. crystal beer mugs, 18 nights of free hotel accommodations, free rental of a Cadillac or Lincoln for 14 days and two round-trip plane tickets to a major city in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Bermuda, the Bahamas or the Caribbean. Avis has countered with such prizes as color TVs, cruises on the Queen Elizabeth II and free tickets on TWA flights worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giveaway Game: Rent a Car, Get a Koala | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...defendant was a dour ex-CIA agent with dark, glowering eyes and a tight-lipped G. Gordon Liddy demeanor. The other was a jovial Englishman who smokes Cuban cigars, drives a $60,000 custom-made Cadillac convertible and cracks jokes about himself as a "good ole boy" who "drills a little oil and raises a little beef on his 2,000-acre ranch near Dallas. Their personalities may differ, but the two millionaires have much in common. Both Edwin Wilson and Ian Smalley were on trial in Texas, in unrelated but remarkably comparable cases, charged with masterminding elaborate arms-smuggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Shots Feel the Heat | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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