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...used-and-new Dodge. Pontiac and Plymouth car lots in Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing...
When surgeons disagree about an operation, or when hospital authorities accuse a surgeon of unprofessional practice, the public ordinarily hears nothing of it. The medical profession has a code of silence that covers nearly all such cases. But last week Pontiac, Mich. (pop. 80,000) was treated to a hair-raising public airing of charges and countercharges exchanged between Pontiac General Hospital and a surgeon recently suspended from its staff. The case badly shook the town's confidence in its appointed healers, and it gave the rest of the U.S. something to think about...
...knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year he was asked to leave St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac "for conduct unbecoming a physician...
Lost: One Sponge. Surgeon Sullenberger took his patients to Pontiac General, stayed for four years, helped to run a training program for younger surgeons. After a Michigan conviction for speeding (more than 100 m.p.h.) he went South, held four hospital appointments from Mississippi to Texas, none for more than five months. Then Dr. Sullenberger returned to Pontiac General, where he was put back on the staff after signing an undated resignation. Within 16 months the hospital's new director, Carl Flath, picked up the resignation. Dr. Sullenberger sued for reinstatement. Then Director Flath loosed his blast. In an answer...
...rear-fender lines; all cars are 9 in. longer, 4 in. wider, 2 in. lower, have optional air-suspension ride and a slight horsepower increase to 290 h.p. Two new models: a sporty Impala hardtop and a convertible, both with 280 h.p. to compete with Ford's Thunderbird. Pontiac is just as new, with revamped, rocket-ornamented body, double-barreled taillight and a bigger, 300-h.p. engine...