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Meanwhile, U.S. agents learned of the invasion scheme and, posing as seamen, won the confidence of the group's ringleader-a macho, Cadillac-driving Houston homosexual named Mike Perdue. Apparently reconnoitering for the invaders was Mary Ann McGuire, a 26-year-old Irish-Canadian nurse with ties to the I.R.A., who had flown to Dominica on April 15. She is now in police custody there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bayou of Pigs | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...chattering crowd outside the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home into a brief silence. The casket is coming out. Boom! A second shot signals the stricken cadence of a dirge. The white gloves of the pallbearers flash in the morning sun as they float their burden to the silver-gray Cadillac hearse. The main party of mourners, a score or so, fit themselves into several cars waiting in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Jazzman's Last Ride | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle. He is the field marshal for the downtrodden, having assembled 185 organizations into a budget coalition to contend with Ronald Reagan, who does not smoke but who happens to wear a dinner jacket just as often and rides in a chauffeured Cadillac limousine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Army in Pinstripes and Guccis | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Union; John J. Lewis Jr., 54, chairman of Phoenix's Combined Communications Corp., to Britain; Robert Neumann, 65, the vice chairman of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, to Saudi Arabia; Robert Nesen, 63, a California Cadillac dealer who owns a ranch next to Reagan's, to Australia; Paul Nitze, 74, former disarmament negotiator in the Nixon Administration, to West Germany; Theodore E. Cummings, 72, former supermarket-chain owner, to Austria; John L. Loeb Jr., 51, New York investment banker and major Republican contributor, to Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics Makes Strange Envoys | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Fait accompli, Harvard style. From the ones who brought you the Cadillac of Kiosks...introducing: The New Shuttle Bus Schedule, which cuts wages of student drivers and maroons students on weekend days. No deans have been publicly identified as perpetrators of that schedule: they did get rather nasty press on those kiosks, remember? This time, CHUL students (most of whom never got to vote or even express an opinion on the new schedule) shoulder the blame. The effect: Divide and Conquer. Student shuttle drivers vs. students on CHUL; female students requiring the greater security of the new nighttime schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuttle Shuffle | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

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