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Officer Dan MacGilvray sat in his cruiser on the corner of DeWolf and Mem Drive on a cold March morning. An hysterical motorist jumped out of his Pontiac screaming that a car had just veered off Mem Drive into the Charles River. Within minutes, Sgt. Peter A. O'Hare and Officer Thomas Simas were groping about the turbid ice water for the submerged car door. They dragged one of the two women from the river and collapsed from overexposure. A month later they were to be commended for saving one woman's life. Not every day in the life...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Police: Chafin' at the Bit | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...past six months, tall, white-haired Republican Congressman John Anderson of Illinois has spent much of his time careering around his home state in a battered, red Pontiac station wagon. His mission: to discover whether he had enough support to enter the presidential race. Last week his hopeful answer appeared inevitable when his wife Keke bought him a new, dark blue suit. Proudly wearing it, Anderson, 57, the chairman of the House Republican Conference and thus third-ranking member in the leadership, became the seventh G.O.P. candidate.* Said the ten-term Congressman: "I have been in the leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Act of Faith | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...divisions, each of which will give it a slightly different body, as well as a different name. Chevrolet's model will be called the Citation, and it will replace the current Chevy Nova. Three other divisions will use the same names that they now have on their compacts: Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. The cars will be classified as 1980 models, giving them a five-month sales lead over the later-starting competitors that will come out when the model year formally begins in the autumn. Between April and September, GM aims for sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...college campuses everywhere. Or at least my brother watches it, and a friend of his, and the former sports editor of The Crimson. Maybe you don't believe me. Just ask Miles Kantrowitz how many polyester jackets he's sold since Rockford started. Ask Herbert T. Grierson of Grierson Pontiac how many Firebirds he's wheeled off his lot. They know. They really appreciate how cool Rockford...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Cool Files | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...made a $10,000 profit. Next week he will rebate all of it to his 2,000 regular customers, of whose spending he kept account, at a rate of 30%. One customer, who spent $1,000 at WE, will thus receive $300 in cash; the city of Pontiac, which had him cater two parties, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Saying Thank You with Rebates | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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