Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Officer Mike Swindell finished the course, he spotted a Pontiac speeding by a stop sign. "I was always 20 miles an hour slower than he was, but he was taking those curves bad," Swindell recalls. "Finally, he missed a curve and I caught him." Officer Thomas Rudd has tried another Turner tactic: staying to the left of a fleeing car. Says he: "That's very intimidating, because the only thing the guy sees in his mirror is you about to pass him. This Dodge I was chasing could have outrun me, but he just gave...
...Pontiac showroom in The Bronx, looters smashed through a steel door and stole 50 new cars, valued at $250,000; they put the ignition wires together and drove off. Young men roamed East 14th Street in Manhattan, snatching women's purses. Adults toted shopping bags stuffed with steaks and roasts from a meat market on 125th Street in Harlem. At an appliance store on 105th Street, two boys about ten years old staggered along with a TV set, while a woman strolled by with three radios. "It's the night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore...
...enough police arrived to station four or five cops on every corner of the most troubled area, while other cops prowled in marked and unmarked cars. One worn-out sergeant told me: 'My ass is numb and my shoulders are scrunched from riding with five other men in a Pontiac Tempest." But it worked. As tensions eased, the police avoided making arrests as much as possible to help cool things...
...goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released on $300,000 bail, which he raised by pledging $1.25 million worth of property that he owns in Pontiac, Mich...
Free Cars. Last week, after an initial period of stonewalling, GM yielded. It made an offer for which no auto executive could recall a parallel: it will take back any 1977 Olds, Buick or Pontiac equipped with a Chevy engine and give the buyer credit for the full sales price, minus 8? for each mile driven, on the purchase of a new car of the same make. Thus if the price of a Chevy-engined Olds less mileage deductions comes to, say, $7,000, the buyer can give it back and get a new $7,000 Olds (this time fitted...