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...Pontiac Firebird, sister to the Camaro, is being run by Jerry Titus, a former auto magazine editor and amateur racer, whih turned professional in his early forties. Titus is a very quick driver, and a talented team manager, but his effort has not had the same degree of factory backing that some of the other teams have...
...company's division chiefs to their telephones with new instructions for their ad agencies. A picture-taking session for new Pontiac promotions was interrupted by an order that the young male models trim their sideburns and pose in conventional clothes. "Youthful" ad copy for the sporty 1970 Firebird, which will be introduced this month, was hastily rewritten...
...example, met his second wife Grace when she was a secretary at the company where he worked two jobs ago. Now 32, Ongemach owns a stereo set so complicated that he objects when other people try to operate it. His garage shelters a 1966 Cadillac and 1968 Pontiac Firebird with a 400-h.p. engine that he souped up himself. When his cars or his job preoccupy him so much that Grace complains, he told TIME Miami Bureau Chief Joseph Kane, he may react by saying: "I want you to be happy. Here is some money. Go buy yourself a mink...
...York Times and The New Yorker. The modern composer faces an audience whose taste is a brew of remembrance and indigestion, appealing for Beethoven, Tchaikowsky, and Verdi and refusing to acknowledge the existence of post-war music. For most of these people "modern" music consists of The Firebird, La Mer, Bolero, the Rachmaminoff Piano Concertos, and Appalachian Spring...
...increasingly wide array of hot intermediate-sized "muscle" cars, and an even wider range of optional extras designed to make them hotter still. At the International Auto Show in Manhattan last week, the muscle cars were there in force, from Plymouth's Road Runner to Pontiac's Firebird, and they made an obvious hit with visitors. Says Ray Brock, publisher of Hot Rod magazine: "The high-performance buff can now literally 'build' his own individualized machine right on the showroom floor." Among the fastest of the new hybrids...