Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YVONNE DUFFY Pontiac, Mich...
...hasn't got it quite right. The road is really an escape route. When G.T.O. stops his sleek and speedy Pontiac to pick up hitchhikers along his way to anywhere, it is reality he is letting in. Talking to his passengers-a faggot cowpuncher, a grandmother caring for a newly orphaned child, a couple of soldiers on leave-he attempts to draw them into his own baroque imagination. He is by turns an ex-fighter pilot, a gambler, a test driver from Detroit. It is only clear about G.T.O. that whatever road he takes, he will always be lost...
...best his Bud Moore Mustang teammate, Follmer, Gregg did beat by a comfortable margin third place Javelin mounted Peter Revson, who earlier in the weekend finished second at the Indianapolis 500. In fourth position when the checkered flag fell was veteran sports car driver Bob Tullius in a 1964 Pontiac GTO. This amazing vehicle had 80,000 miles on it as a street car, before being converted to racing...
...crushing blow to civic pride fell when William Ford (brother of Henry) announced that he would move his football Lions to suburban Pontiac. Only the certain wrath of city officials keeps J.L. Hudson Co. from shutting its main department store, which suffered $9,000,000 worth of pilferage last year. "We would close the downtown store in a minute if we could do it without being crucified," admits one Hudson executive. With mordant humor, a banner at a recent press-club banquet asked: WILL THE LAST COMPANY TO LEAVE DETROIT PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...
Born in Wise, Va., and raised in Michigan, Scott spent much of his childhood "being terrified of my father." Scott's father, George D., was a coal mine surveyor when the Depression shut down most of the mines in the area. He moved his family to Pontiac, Mich., where, he brags, "I worked my ass off and the family never missed a meal. It was drive, drive, drive." Scott's mother Helen (called "Honey") was an elocutionist who gave public poetry readings and occasionally contributed verse to the local papers. She spent hours teaching her son how to read stories...