Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, no one really knew who had killed the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party as he was being driven to a meeting with party members. Slowing down at a corner to begin a steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
Leaving his home early last week, the hulking Cowan did exactly that. He carefully loaded the trunk of his red '71 Pontiac GTO with a Sako .308 rifle, four pistols and bandoleers of ammunition. Then he drove to the Neptune terminal two blocks away and parked outside the main entrance. "Somebody said that Freddie was outside putting on guns," a Neptune worker recalled later. "We thought it was a joke...
...demanded the car's ignition key and Huffman's money and drove the '69 Pontiac toward Boston...
...crisply styled autos has delighted GM executives. Cadillac, which brought out its Mercedes-size Seville, experienced its best year ever in 1976. For the first time, Oldsmobile's intermediate-size Cutlass shoved aside Chevrolet and Ford to become the nation's bestselling single make (514,593 cars). Pontiac, which also concentrated on intermediate lines, scored an impressive 49.5% increase in sales...
...tendency to buy small-or at least smaller-and spend big has been General Motors. Its rise in sales this year of some 622,000 cars has been larger than the increases at all the other automakers combined. Among GM's leaders: the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and the Pontiac Grand Prix, both carrying base prices of $4,600 to $5,200, and its compact Chevy Nova and Oldsmobile Cutlass, which lists at $4,500 and has been the industry's top seller for two years running...