Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest blunder was made by Angelo Sepe, 37, a mob-connected hood who was on parole from an armed-robbery conviction. Unable to resist enjoying his new wealth, he ordered a sporty 1979 Thunderbird -and paid for the car with $9,000 in cash. He also bought a new Cadillac for his girlfriend. Before he picked up the T-bird, however, FBI agents fitted it with an eavesdropping bug and a small radio transmitter that constantly signaled its whereabouts. Sepe's next mistake was to boast about the Lufthansa caper to passengers in his car -taped conversations that...
...will never escape. In Lone Star, a Viet Nam veteran named Roy (Patrick Tovatt) longs to escape from a changed Texas and preserve the past of his youthful high jinks. He loves to guzzle beer and maul his button-headed brother Ray (Leo Burmester), and worships his 1959 pink Thunderbird convertible. When that is totaled by Cletis (Peter Bartlett), the moment of maturity arrives. McLure's effervescent gift for black comedy makes both of these plays bubble with the champagne of laughter. - T.E. Kalem
There is a little poetic embellishment to the above scene, but it is pretty close to the picture of how-things-might-have-been that emerges from the relaxed mind of Gerald Ford, ensconced last week at the edge of Thunderbird's glorious fairways in Palm Springs. If he had been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty...
...taxpayers' group and paid director ($17,000 a year) of the Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, a landlords' organization. He devotes hours to unearthing new details supporting his case for lower taxes: he has determined, for instance, that the $8,000 sticker price on his Thunderbird includes some $4,500 of taxes and that 116 different taxes are levied on a loaf of bread...
...years old with orange hair and a face lift." The most popular contender in the party is Gerald Ford. "There he was," reported the same Republican, "in his white leisure suit beside the pool in Palm Springs. How do you lead this nation from the fairways of Thunderbird...