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...largely subsided, but natives flock to such offshoots as the Commercial Vision Seeing, the Father Divine Apostolic, and the Cherubim and Seraphim churches. Lagos has its local "Jesus" in one Emmanuel Odumosu, who insists on strict abstinence from alcohol but has seven wives and rides in a luxurious Pontiac car driven by a chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revolt Against Christianity | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...five years, were averaging an operating profit of $70 per new car sold v. last year's $63, despite lower markups on compact cars. With the compacts doing so well, General Motors made it official that it will offer three new ones: a Buick called the Special, a Pontiac called the Tempest, and an Oldsmobile called, for reasons that puzzled even some Olds executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Second Thoughts | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Sins of Weakness. Pastor Kern, 52, is the son of a Pontiac assembly-line worker, a graduate of Sacred Heart Seminary, and a former chaplain in the Catholic Worker movement. He came to Holy Trinity in 1943, was made pastor in 1949. Since he took over, reports Juvenile Court Judge Nathan Kaufman, the area around Holy Trinity Church has had the lowest juvenile delinquency rate of any comparable slum area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Island in Society | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...from the same month a year ago). Of that total, 27.5% were compacts. On the strength of the spring buying surge, some of the auto companies were increasing production schedules. Chrysler, with sales up 32% from April a year ago, will step up output in May and June; Pontiac is increasing this month's production. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Happy Motoring | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...pairs). The National Newspaper Syndicate is now distributing Palmer's column on golf, and he is now completing negotiations for television commercials for L & M cigarettes (which he puffs by the pack on the course). Like the other top 26 pros, Palmer gets free use of a white 1960 Pontiac (the finicky Finsterwald turned his back in, bought a blue Cadillac coupe equipped with everything but a practice green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: For Love & Money | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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