Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operations performed on two successive days at the modern Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital in Michigan could not be considered dangerous. Nonetheless they turned into a nightmare of anesthetic error, and when the nightmare ended, three patients were dead...
Actors from the Audience. To see how the ideas would work out, Saarinen took over an abandoned movie theater in Pontiac, Mich., built a full-scale mockup. To find out what was needed, Mielziner plotted out 150 plays that he had designed (among them Death of a Salesman, The King and I, South Pacific), discovered that the main action in almost every play took place in a triangle whose base rested on the footlights. Mielziner and Saarinen boldly flipped the triangle so that it was pointing out into the audience, thus doubling the prime acting area available. When the extra...
Giveaways provide Detroit with another opportunity. In current contests, for example, CITGO is offering a Mustang, and Tetley Tea and Purina Dog Chow are offering Pontiacs as prizes. Thom McAn is introducing a new shoe named GTO, will give away 20 Pontiac GTOs and carry splashy signs in its 850 stores showing pictures of the car as well as the shoe...
...first ten days, Chrysler sold 40,043 new cars -almost 7,000 more than a year ago. New Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs did not reach the showrooms until last week, but General Motors' earlier arrivals were setting a dizzy pace. Chevrolet sales were up 20% over last year, Pontiac's a staggering 66%. Ford's ten-day sales were nearly 30,000 ahead of last year, and even struggling American Motors almost matched its 1964 sales...
...inches to 18.3 feet. Buick's Riviera shucks its triangular front-vent windows in favor of a single pane, also has out-of-sight headlights that slide behind the grille when not turned on. Chrysler's front fenders have a square look, and its grille, borrowing from Pontiac, is split...