Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard Pontiac will change its headlight pattern from the present four abreast to vertical pairs, one light directly above the other on each side...
...defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine man Popé led an uprising against the Spanish (and the church) in the Southwest in 1680, reconquered the New Mexico territory and held it for twelve years. The savage Ottawa chief Pontiac successfully took all but two British posts in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region; the Shawnees' great Tecumseh envisioned a united Indian nation that would sweep all white men into the seas and died leading his men against General William Henry Harrison near Lake Erie...
...ELLIOTT M. ("Pete") ESTES, 45, Pontiac chief engineer since 1956, moved into front-line management by taking over Knudsen's post at Pontiac...
...much higher in the G.M. hierarchy because he will be close to retirement himself in four years. A barrel-chested outgoing life of the party, Goodman started at G.M. 36 years ago on the assembly line, worked his way to the top through the Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly divisions. His biggest contribution: cutting the time it takes to develop a new model from more than three years to less than...
...Maiden Aunts. Knudsen in personality and record is a subdued version of Cole. He came out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, joined G.M. three years later. After hitches in the automotive, aircraft and diesel engine manufacturing divisions, he took over Pontiac in 1956 when it was looked on as a car good only for maiden aunts. Knudsen ripped off Pontiac's traditional chrome streaks, pepped up its engine and gave it gimmick features ("wide track." split grille). Result: while other medium-priced cars continued to slide, Pontiac jumped from sixth place in sales into a fight with...