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...boss of the drooping Pontiac Division. His first move was to order styling changes on the 1957 model to rid Pontiac of its "grandma" image-something that few automen would have dared just 60 days away from volume production. Off came two pieces of chrome across the hood and trunk lid-no matter that his fa ther had introduced them in 1935. Next, Knudsen reached for what the youth of the day wanted. He brought out a 21 in. wider and flashier model to appeal to young drivers. Soon, Pontiac sales jumped from sixth place to third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Biggest Switch | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...When she came to, her husband's body was stuffed in beside her in the car. "I couldn't figure out where I was. I yelled, 'Where am I? Help me!' Then I heard Freddy's voice say: 'You're in the trunk. Dad is dead, and I'm going to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Two Boys & the Death Penalty | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

Discovered in a dusty trunk in Trieste, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by James Joyce has been treated by Viking and the academic Joyce industry as if it were a combination of a new Dead Sea Scroll, the Rosetta stone, and a papyrus by Parmenides the Eleatic. All for ten bucks a throw -a throw being exactly 16 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Stones | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper in Saratoga Trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...insurance companies until 1990; two weeks ago, Trans World Airlines negotiated $324.6 million of new loans from banks and insurance companies as part of a record $800.2 million package that includes refinancing $475.6 million of outstanding debts. Thus within a fortnight, three of the nation's four largest trunk carriers tapped the tightening money market for some $700 million in fresh funds. Cost Squeeze. Almost all of that bundle will go to pay for stretched jet transports, jumbo jets and supersonic aircraft already on order. Scheduled U.S. airlines last year took delivery of 388 new jet planes-a rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Straining to Pay for Tomorrow | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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