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Secret Service agents have already urged him, so far without success, to give up his armored Ford LTD sedan-originally made for the President of Mexico -in favor of an equally armored but roomier Continental limousine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Resisting the 'State and Pomp' | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Eye Drop | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...that, and the $1,000 he now receives for an evening's performance, his life has changed little. His beloved black 1941 Buick sedan and a '65 Dodge Dart are the only family automobiles. "I might like to walk on a little bit nicer rug," he admits. "But if I get caught up in big cars and fancy homes, I'll lose touch with the people. My music is simple honkytonk. It's nothing too eloquent 'cause I'm a simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/music: A Honky -Tonk Man | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sport: Just Like Whiskey | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, a black sedan wheeled through the imposing gates of No. 1-19-12 in Tokyo's exclusive Mejiro district. When the car stopped at a large villa, two men got out, showed their identification at the door and asked to see the master of the house. Within a few hours, bull-necked Kakuei Tanaka, 58, Premier of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and still regarded as the tough, calculating "computerized bulldozer" of his country's dominant political party, had been booked at a police station and signed into a cell at the Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bribery Shokku At the Top | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

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