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Levy Duren survived Jim Crow laws and the Nazis' guns, then set his goals on the pleasures of life: a pretty girl, a home of his own and a brand-new Cadillac."

In his first comments since his dropped backwards pass resulted in a New York Giants touchdown, running back Cadillac Williams made no excuses. "It was just a bonehead move by me, just knowing whenever it's a lateral like that, you've got to be aware and get on the ball," Williams said Thursday. "Just a bonehead move by me. " On third-and-8 from the New York 25, quarterback Sam Bradford attempted to throw a quick screen to Williams near the left sideline. But because of pressure from the edge by the Giants' defense, Bradford had to throw the pass backwards to reach Williams.

Why has The Sun been quiet on the "Cadillac" health care plan debate? If you're an ordinary citizen who has a "Cadillac" health care plan, you will pay a 40 percent excise tax on the plan. Unless of course you're a union member or government employee and have a "Cadillac" plan. Then you will not pay the tax. President Obama promised to change the way Washington does business. Special interests and the influence of lobbyists was going to end. It's time for The Sun and the national media to call him on it. Len Bollinger Send your comments to talkback@baltimoresun.

An article in the Aug. 24, 1961, edition of the Herald Argus and Baltimore Countian reported on the arrival of a new, modern ambulance for the area. The new $7,000 Catonsville ambulance, a one-ton Chevrolet panel body truck chassis converted into an ambulance, is far superior to the old Cadillac which cost nearly $10,000, according to Deputy Fire Chief Lee Cockey . It is more durable, the metal is heavier, repairs will be cheaper, it will require less time in the shop and in all respects will be less worrisome, Chief Cockey said.

An article in the Aug. 24, 1961, edition of the Herald Argus and Baltimore Countian reported on the arrival of a new, modern ambulance for the area. The new $7,000 Catonsville ambulance, a one-ton Chevrolet panel body truck chassis converted into an ambulance, is far superior to the old Cadillac which cost nearly $10,000, according to Deputy Fire Chief Lee Cockey . It is more durable, the metal is heavier, repairs will be cheaper, it will require less time in the shop and in all respects will be less worrisome, Chief Cockey said.

Chesapeake Cadillac, a North Charles Street fixture that has served Maryland's rich and famous since the early days of the Great Depression, is opening a dealership in Cockeysville.But that doesn't necessarily mean that the art deco showroom where Glenn L. Martin, T. Rowe Price, Frank Robinson, Dorothy Lamour and Dr. Milton Eisenhower bought cars will close any time soon, according to Jeffrey F. Ballan, Chesapeake's president.He said the company plans to retain the city site and operate it as a satellite of the modern sales-and-service facility that is scheduled to open on York Road in April.

The audience for "Road Scholar," which opens today at th Rotunda, certainly should include readers of The Sun. That's because this is the first movie ever about a Sun writer, if you discount Meg Ryan in "Sleepless in Seattle," and Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins in "HeSaid, She Said."Not only that: Our boy actually appears on camera most of the time. He gets to ride a big red convertible and shoot machine guns! Yes: it's "Lethal Weapon IV" with Dan Rodricks in the Mel Gibson role!Oh, forgive my little joke there, folks.

For the new model year, the Cadillac Seville, Eldorado, Fleetwood and DeVille offer a new 4.9-liter, 200-horsepower update of last year's 4.5-liter, 180-hp V-8.In test driving a '91 Fleetwood, we found 20 more horsepower means you move from the light a bit quicker and quieter than with the 4.5.It means that when you're on that hill and the 4.9 is under the hood, the speedometer needle rises if you press the accelerator. With the 4.5, you had to press the pedal as you approached the hill to gain the needed momentum.

Looking at the luxury car market these days, you get the impression that Cadillac is out on a limb and that foreign luxury carmakers are slowly sawing it off.General Motors' luxury car division always has attracted older car buyers, but industry officials say future growth lies in attracting young, affluent buyers, baby boomers who are moving into their peak earning years.This is territory that European and Japanese car companies now dominate.But in 1992, Cadillac plans a big change. The division hopes to grab a share of that market segment with the redesigned Seville and Eldorado.

A 53-year-old man was in the Baltimore County jail last night charged with setting his former live-in girlfriend's 1988 Cadillac on fire after she broke up with him and went back to her husband.It was after midnight yesterday when police surrounded Anthony Rill's home in a north county subdivision in the 17200 block of Hunter Green Road, near Mount Carmel and Falls roads. They thought he had barricaded himself inside. Police and his former girlfriend, Agnes Elizabeth Gordon, 60, of Arden Valley Court in Hereford, already had spent an hour on the phone with him, said Sgt. Stephen R. Doarnberger.

North Calvert Street 2900 block, between 10 p.m. July 31 and 9:03 a.m. Aug. 1. Yellow, red and black Huawin Hy-150T-5 motor scooter stolen. Cedarcroft Road 600 block, between 7:45 a.m. and 5:25 p.m. Aug. 1. Two laptops, iPod, camera bag, two cameras, jewelry stolen from residence. Entry gained by forcing open rear door. NorthCharles Street 2900 block, 3:50 and 10:50 a.m. July 31. Green, 1997 Toyota Avalon with Maryland tags HCC543 stolen. Elmhurst Road Unit block, between 8:30 p.m. Aug. 5 and 11:30 a.m. Aug. 6. Silver, 2009 Subaru Forester with Maryland tags LNL191 stolen.

Corralled by a ring of inflatable cushions near the back of Cadillac Ranch in the National Harbor sits Diablo, one of the state's few regularly operating mechanical bulls. On a typical Friday or Saturday night, hundreds of would-be cowboys sign a waiver and fork over $3 for a chance to test their bull-riding ability. Though a few experienced riders can stay on for as long as a minute, most last only 10 or 20 seconds, said Dathon Compton, the restaurant's general manager. But that doesn't stop them from trying.

Why has The Sun been quiet on the "Cadillac" health care plan debate? If you're an ordinary citizen who has a "Cadillac" health care plan, you will pay a 40 percent excise tax on the plan. Unless of course you're a union member or government employee and have a "Cadillac" plan. Then you will not pay the tax. President Obama promised to change the way Washington does business. Special interests and the influence of lobbyists was going to end. It's time for The Sun and the national media to call him on it. Len Bollinger Send your comments to talkback@baltimoresun.

Michael Phelps, who holds the Olympic record with 14 gold medals for swimming, was shaken but apparently uninjured Thursday night when the late-model Cadillac Escalade he was driving in Mid-Town Belvedere collided with another vehicle, seriously damaging Phelps' vehicle, the other car and a parked vehicle, police said. The female driver of the Honda Accord was taken to an area hospital as a precaution, police said. Shortly before 9 p.m., Phelps, 24, was driving the Cadillac east in the 100 block of E. Biddle St. when he entered the intersection at the 1100 block of N. Calvert St. and collided with a Honda Accord driven north in the 1100 block of N. Calvert St. by a woman.

I am your scapegoat. I am your boogeyman. Brown-skinned, kinky-haired, black man, me. So I was not surprised last week when a white woman from suburban Philadelphia called police from her cell phone, claiming she had been locked in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men. Nor was I shocked when police said Bonnie Sweeten was actually holed up in a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World and there never was a kidnapping, much less by two black men. I'm your...

WASHINGTON - In their quest for a financial lifeline from Washington, U.S. automakers filed detailed plans yesterday for reinventing themselves for a leaner, greener future, but what might do more to win over a skeptical Congress was another round of disastrous news from the nation's car dealers. New car and truck sales plunged 37 percent in November, the latest in a string of dismal sales reports stretching back more than a year. And evidence that the bottom is falling out of an industry with supplier and dealer networks that stretch across the country could bring the economic and political costs of a collapse home to uncertain members of the House and Senate.

Carroll County has one of the best library systems in the state. The commissioners should do all they can to ensure that it retains that status instead of expressing hostility toward county libraries, as they did recently. A good library system says volumes about a community and its feelings toward knowledge, learning and its heritage.During their review of the library budget, the commissioners indicated, in several disparaging remarks, that Library Director Martha Makovsky had gotten accustomed to requesting "Cadillacs" rather than Chevies and that librarians earn too much money.

General Motors Corp. closed the hood on its $61,675 Cadillac Allante yesterday, saying it will stop making the convertible two-seater that dealers credit with getting younger car buyers to consider Cadillacs again.Even though it generated excitement, the Allante itself was never a hit. The roadster was expensive to make, in part because its body was built in Italy and its chassis made in Hamtramck, Mich., with final assembly done in this country.Allante's high production costs and a weak dollar contributed to the high prices that held sales to a mere 1,878 from Jan. 1 `D through Nov. 10."

Robbery try at repair shop leaves man dead, police say 1 The owner of a Northwest Baltimore auto repair shop fatally shot a man during an attempted robbery of his business yesterday evening, city police said. Police spokesman Sterling Clifford said this was the second time that Joseph Goldman has shot someone trying to rob his business. Clifford said he did not know when the first incident occurred or whether the person died. Goldman declined to comment through a woman who answered his cell phone last night.

The Rev. Arthur L. "Billy" Corbin Sr., founder and pastor of the Full Gospel Church of Phoenix and a retired postal worker, died Wednesday at his Phoenix, Baltimore County, home of kidney failure. He was 79. Mr. Corbin, who was born and raised on Warren Road in Cockeysville, attended Baltimore County public schools. "He was 11 when he started preaching and was 18 when he began pastoring his own church," said his wife of 36 years, the former Darce J. Ward, who is a church organist, pianist and soloist.