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...year-old woman in Pontiac General Hospital was anemic and needed blood transfusions to build her up for an operation. From the refrigerator, doctors took a pint of matching (Group A, Rh-positive) blood that had been stored for 19 days and transfused it into one of her veins. By the next day her blood counts were somewhat better, but to be on the safe side, the doctors gave her the concentrated cells from another pint of blood from the same donor...
Buick introduced its Skylark, a flashy coupe with a more powerful engine, chrome-trimmed fenders, and an optional cloth-covered white roof. Pontiac showed off its Le Mans five-passenger coupe, a sleeker version of the standard four-cylinder Tempest with a four-speed gearbox and wire wheels. Ford introduced its new Futura (TIME, March 24) and Comet S-22. Chrysler showed off its experimental Turboflite; it has a rakish body by Ghia, a gas turbine engine only half as heavy as a regular V8, and an aft flap that acts as an air brake...
...Donner's first jobs when he took over at G.M. in 1958 was approving the new 1960 luxury-size compacts-Buick Special, Olds F85 and Pontiac Tempest -then in the clay-model stage. At first skeptical of the compacts-he prefers the term small cars-Donner now thinks that the auto industry has been "witnessing a series of changes that may prove little short of revolutionary over the long run." But Donner does not feel that the compacts will sweep all before their path. He still expects the majority of G.M.'s customers to buy larger cars. Says...
...twice as many Darts as it did last year; Ford sold 12,361 Falcons in the ten days, expects to have a backlog of 12,000 to 15.000 orders for its new Thunderbird by the time it is introduced Nov. 10. Good sales were reported by Chevrolet. Studebaker and Pontiac. Industry spokesmen expect that 6,600,000 to 7,000,000 1961 models will be sold (including foreign cars), which would make a good if not spectacular year...
...seeking his third term, has borrowed the "experience" line from the Republicans (his campaign slogan: "Succeed with Seniority"), is carefully sidestepping the intense, local Democratic squabbles. His conservative opponent, William Frank Colwes (pronounced Call-wes), is tall (6 ft. 4 in.), grey and handsome, a civic leader and onetime Pontiac dealer who is scarcely known outside of Santa Fe, given little chance of upsetting Old Pol Clint Anderson...