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...being spoiled, and that car is a treat to ride around in," allowed Actor Ben Gazzara after driving to the Chicago premiere of Capone in Big Al's own Cadillac limousine. The six-ton, bulletproof car, built in 1928 and later used by President Franklin Roosevelt, had been specially shipped in for the premiere from its permanent display place in Niagara Falls, Canada. "I'd love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra...
...doors-one room is lined with safe-deposit boxes. Ancient glass-covered safe doors serve as tables, wine lists arrive in zippered moneybags, and place mats are blown-up replicas of $1,000 bills. Checks are paid to a cashier appropriately ensconced behind a teller's window. A six-ton armored car drives through town as an advertisement, and to make a reservation one has only to dial the telephone letters A HOLDUP...
...studio, where the artist treats a work's completion like an unveiling. Last week Tony Smith was busy chauffeuring selected friends across the Hudson and through the back streets of Newark to the cement-block building where his new creation had taken final form-a 16-ft., six-ton steel structure called The Snake...
...fleet of trucks rumbled out of National Homes Corp.'s prefabrication plant in Lafayette, Ind., shortly after midnight, laden with six-ton sections of ready-to-live-in housing. Their destination was a Chicago ghetto 125 miles away. Less than 24 hours later, tall cranes had plucked the sections from the trucks and stacked them into eight two-story, four-bedroom homes ready for occupancy...
...toward a dirt-pushing bulldozer. Three of them flung themselves into the path of the steel treads. Klunder lay down behind the machine. The driver, John White, 33, stopped when he saw the three in front. He looked around, but did not see Klunder. Slowly, he began backing his six-ton bulldozer. When he finally stopped, the dead body of Bruce Klunder lay in the tread-marked...