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Pizazz, last year's big word, means jazzy touches for those who dream of owning a sports car. Pizazz includes stick shifts, grip bars on the dashboard, and bucket seats...
Tacked to bulletin boards in the sprawling Lone Star Steel plant near Daingerfield in East Texas was a folksy message to the company's 4,600 employees: "I've got a can full of worms, a bucket of minnows and a cane pole, and I'm headed for the creek bank." Thus last week did white-haired, Stetson-hatted E. B. (for Eugene Benjamin) Germany, 69, announce his retirement after 15 years as president of one of Texas' most remarkable and controversial corporations. Continuing as chairman, Germany will be replaced as Lone Star's chief...
...appeared that Ford might grab off the lion's share of an important new market. Almost by chance, however, Chevrolet dressed up some Corvairs with pizazz features to attract customers into showrooms to look at the ordinary Corvair. With that began the Monza and the "bucket seat boom" -another example of the auto buyer's old urge to upgrade the plain and the practical...
Harvard will compete in the varsity division. The first event will be the "Happi Bagh" (elephant run), which is a sprint. Then comes the "Poni Cohn" (water thief), in which the elephants must carry a bucket of water in their trunks without getting the mahouts...
Water While It Rolls. But for those not so politically sensitive, there were plenty of other foreign models, as well as the "1962½" models from Detroit. Sports cars, once a European specialty, are sprouting in the American lines. Oldsmobile's is a coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...