Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening early this week mild-mannered Cyrus Vance suddenly changes from a charming, relaxed dinner partner to a tough diplomat on the run. The new Secretary of State excuses himself from a White House gala honoring Mexican President José López Portillo, dashes into a waiting Ford sedan, strips off his black bow tie and-in the pre-midnight dark -speeds south to Andrews Air Force Base. Within minutes, he is airborne in a specially outfitted Boeing...
...stop at runway's end. For almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with half the plane's cargo removed, the police charged from the bushes, acting so quickly that they captured without...
Secret Service agents have already urged him, so far without success, to give up his armored Ford LTD sedan-originally made for the President of Mexico -in favor of an equally armored but roomier Continental limousine...
...fussy, mildly eccentric eating habits: he likes New Orleans chicory coffee and frequents a cafeteria where the food is more honest than the clientele, which runs mostly to grifters, hustlers and small time sharpies. St. Ives drives a car that is, as required, grittily chic - a black Jaguar sedan that has seen better days. So, of course, has St. Ives...
...moonshiners. Almost every male over 14 shyly admits to a little informal dark-of-night racing experience. California teen-agers get high on laughing gas; their peers in North Carolina prefer the 150 h.p. bursts of acceleration that a bottle of nitrous oxide delivers when attached to a sedan's air filter...