Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town as usual. They roamed the streets and pushed at doorbells; they begged for cookies and smeared the store windows with slogans written in soap. But one window they steadfastly refused to touch. On the morning after the big night, the plate glass of the Higgins-Pontiac showroom was, as always, clean...
...last 20 years, it has become something of a Ferndale tradition for the youngsters to pay George N. Higgins this special tribute. A bluff, grey-haired man of 52, he is a familiar figure around town. He runs a trucking firm as well as the Pontiac agency, and for six years he has also been a state senator. But his fame in Ferndale rests on quite another activity-his hobby of sending boys & girls through college...
...said it over & over again, from Hartford to Pontiac: his campaign's "simple purpose is to provide-in lieu of shopworn, bad government-to provide good government and good leadership for America .. ." At Troy, N.Y. he dealt with one example of "bad government": "Inflation, the thief that robs you every...
...little guy and his troubles." He thinks of himself as a reporter: "Every comedian is one. You go somewhere, and look around you and say to yourself, 'Wouldn't it be funny if such & such happened?' " Success is happening so fast that Buttons still drives a Pontiac ("Next week, a Cadillac, maybe"). As for the future: "I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. I'm not thinking any further ahead than next Tuesday night...
Chevrolet will have a new body, similar to the Pontiac, a more powerful engine and an improved Power Glide transmission...