Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychiatrist for me. When I turn up the volume, I escape into a peaceful inner world. I split from reality"). This particular evening he heads toward the exclusive Silverado Country Club in Napa to address a group of automobile dealers, one of whom lends Jackson a new Pontiac Grand Prix every year. As Jackson swings his car past the long line of Cadillacs and Mercedeses ringing the driveway at Silverado, he mutters, "The only niggers out here are the ones that cut the grass." Though he mixes easily with the wealthy white crowd, he also twits the audience...
...Inventories of unsold cars are so high throughout the industry that General Motors' Oldsmobile and Pontiac divisions could stop making new cars and still keep their dealers supplied until summer at present sales rates. AMC is down to a 17-day supply of Gremlins, and dealers are pleading for more...
...they once competed to turn out bigger and more powerful cars, so they are now racing to beat each other to the market with new small makes. General Motors disclosed last week that it is considering bringing out new small cars in all its divisions: Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, even Cadillac. GM had hoped to have a Chevy Vega equipped with a Wankel rotary engine ready for unveiling in September, but experimental models have consumed too much gas, so introduction has been put off until...
Across the U.S. this month, the schools are opening in an atmosphere of apprehensive peace. In both North and South, integration has become a more muted issue than it was. In Pontiac, Mich., where white parents all but rioted against busing two years ago, the buses rolled without opposition. In Chicago, a proposed march at Gage Park High School, which last year was closed because of interracial violence, fizzled out. "It was the quietest opening day in seven years," said one of the city's assistant superintendents...
...amazing he lasted as long as he did. Even before I appear in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is surrounded by quite a cast of characters. Harry LeSabre, his salesman, is a sometime transvestite who expresses his women's clothes fetish during Hawaiian Week at Dwayne Hoover's Exit Eleven Pontiac Village. Francine Pefko, Dwayne's mistress, thinks she is his mother. Bunny is Dwayne's homosexual son. There are more. These three are easily enough to strip the gears of any normally functioning machine...