Word: bucketful
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...lovely girl who has always attracted numerous boys, but her wardrobe would not fill a hatbox. She wears almost no jewelry, but she has one material bauble. When a Jaguar auto salesman looked down his nose at the scruffily dressed customer as she peered at a bucket-seat XKE sports model, she sat down, wrote a giant check, and bought it on the spot. Wildly, she dashes across the desert in her Jaguar, as unsecured as a grain of flying sand. "I have no real roots," she says. "Sometimes, when I walk through a suburb with all its tidy houses...
Others fleeing from East Berlin had better luck last week. A young electrical engineer clung to a homemade bucket seat attached to a crane while friends on the Western side wafted him 90 ft. across the Wall. Three teenage boys cut their way through barbed wire, and a coal miner, his courage kindled by schnapps, leaped 35 ft. from a bridge into a barge canal, then swam to the Western shore...
...though it is an unchanged 173 in. long). AMC's Ambassador and Classic models have also been given modern lines that retain only vestigial traces of their traditional, safe-for-auntie appearance. The company has even yielded to pizazz: the new models can be had with all the bucket seats, consoles and five-speed stick shifts that a buyer could crave...
Gone Gun Sights. Its '63s should indeed tide Chrysler over. The new IMPERIAL has been improved by a bolder grille and the elimination of its protruding "gunsight" taillights. The NEW YORKER has a clean and handsome new rear end, will offer luxury lovers optional bucket seats. Replacing the Dodge Lancer (which has been dropped) as the smallest Dodge is a new, intermediate-sized DART that has perky styling and peppy performance. The PLYMOUTH, which in 1962 shrank to an intermediate, has begun to grow again (to an overall length of 205 in.) and has acquired a more substantial look...
Pontiac's entry is its classy GRAND PRIX, which comes in a special iridescent blue-black, is outfitted with bucket seats and will undersell the Riviera and T-Bird by several hundred dollars. Chevrolet's answer is its Corvette STING RAY fastback hardtop. Breaking sharply with its past, the new Corvette has plush carpets, power steering and optional air conditioning -all features that will alienate true sports-car buffs, but are likely to attract many more buyers...