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...sleek convertible that General Motors is formally unveiling in Detroit this week looks a bit out of place wearing the ornate Cadillac nameplate. The car has no fins, no bulk, virtually no chrome, not even a backseat. In fact, the new Allante (price: about $50,000) looks more like a sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar...
...hours later his breathing had stopped for good. With Schroeder's family gathered round, doctors pronounced him dead, but there remained a last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive for 20 months. Surgeon William DeVries put his hand on the chrome key in the front of the refrigerator-size air console; then Schroeder's wife Margaret and their six children, one by one, laid theirs atop his. Together they twisted the key counterclockwise, and the artificial heart beat no more...
...contras. While the CIA and the Sandinista Popular Army ratchet up their plans for what Ortega warns may be "another Viet Nam," the rebels seem content to idle away the hours in their Honduran camps. Two weeks ago, contra military leaders, packing showy chrome and gold-plated pistols, celebrated the reappearance of CIA officials at rebel headquarters near the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa...
...Maxim's the yacht. Now there is Maxim's the luxury hotel, or, more properly, La Residence Maxim's. This latest addition to the Pierre Cardin collection boasts 39 suites, ranging in price from $1,000 to $5,000 a night and in style from belle epoque antiques to chrome-and-plastic modern. Cardin bought the mansion that was to become La Residence 18 months ago; it will open in early July...
...just introduced the fanciest, priciest cart ever to cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires. Such options as plush carpeting and AM-FM radio can add $280 more to the sticker price...