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...warehouse. As a New South go-go banker, he made himself a millionaire, and he was one of the first men whom Carter appointed to a Cabinet-level position. Now the director of the Office of Management and Budget-who cruised around Washington during Inaugural week in a black Cadillac bearing special license plates with BERT on the front bumper and LANCE on the back-might be the first man to go. Last week Bert Lance was rapidly becoming an embarrassment to the Administration, a threat to its whole aura of stern moral probity, and the target of an investigation...
Cats may not possess nine lives, but some could make the Guinness Book of World Records with only one. Tom Cadillac, so christened for his feat, was accidentally shipped in a Cadillac chassis from the U.S. to Australia-a seven-week trip at the time-and was still alive on arrival. He had eaten the engine grease and the car's instruction manual. Chat Beau, a four-year-old male, found his human family in Texarkana...
...blue and white Cadillac that pulled up last week at the federal prison camp in Montgomery was delivering no ordinary arrival, and the taunting convicts knew it. Dressed in a green pinstripe suit and carrying a briefcase, the newcomer slowly worked his way through a crowd of reporters. "They got you now, Big John!" shouted one prisoner. They had indeed, but the big man seemed as glacially composed as ever. "It's a nice day. It's nice to be back in Alabama," said John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's Attorney General...
Thorstein Veblen would have been proud last Saturday night when WGBH-TV, the Cambridge Public Broadcasting System affiliate, auctioned off the distinctive purple-and-gold 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible that the Harvard Lampoon last year awarded John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus...
Little Joe, as he has been called since high school days in Oakland (he is 5 ft. 7 in., 162 lbs.), pilots a blue-and-green 1977 Cadillac these days and is building a four-bedroom house on 2.6 acres above San Francisco Bay. "But I haven't changed," he insists. "I'm still concerned about doing well. I have a chance for a batting title this year. It keeps me pushing." Joe, who has been married for ten years to his high school sweetheart, says that he would marry her again tomorrow. He takes college courses...