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...Pontiac showroom for the scene of such collisions? "Pontiac is the leading middle-class car," Vonnegut told an interviewer some time ago. "But Pontiac is also the name of an Indian chief. The name is like a survey of American history...
...intersection. Not long after that, Dwayne was walking across his asphalt parking lot when his bad chemicals made the asphalt give way beneath him. He thought he was sinking into a kind of "shallow, rubbery dimple." He climbed from dimple to dimple toward the office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that this was Hawaiian Week. Then he saw his sales manager approaching in a grass skirt and a pink T shirt that said "Make Love...
General Motors executives tend to be solid, conservative men who spend decades laboring in patient obscurity. Alongside them, John Zachary DeLorean, 48, stood out like a Corvette Stingray in a showroom full of G.M.C. trucks. Flamboyant, irreverent and unpredictable, DeLorean wore long hair before that was fashionable-it still is not at G.M.-dated Hollywood wows like Ursula Andress, and was twice divorced. Still, he rose steadily to head all G.M. car and truck production, and was rumored to be G.M.'s next president. But last week DeLorean abruptly resigned his $300,000-a-year post to become unsalaried...
Along with its manufacturing preeminence, New York is losing its position as a sales showroom for dresses, wherever made. Visits by out-of-town buyers, who more and more fear that they will be mugged, have dropped 8% in the last five years. Three years ago, Alley Cat, a Philadelphia-based maker of women's boutique and sportswear fashions, sold its entire output through a showroom in Manhattan. Since then, it has opened salesrooms in Dallas and Los Angeles; last year, only about 30% of its garments were sold in New York. Says Jerry Silverman, president of a Manhattan...
...arriving delegates needed to be reminded that Europe faces a Japanese economic challenge as well as one from America, they were obliged to pass a huge Toyota showroom whose beaming proprietors happily threw open their doors and handed out free drinks and sandwiches for any spectators who stopped to watch the leaders of Europe assemble...