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...turbaned and mustached peasants of northwest India's Rajasthan state, it was a taste of old times. Through their villages, in a 1948 Buick that scattered peacocks, startled bullocks and cloaked the neem trees with dust as it sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come...
While tumult and hubbub reigned in U.A.W. councils, Detroit last week wound up its new model offerings with the introduction of the 1962 Buicks. As standard equipment, the compact Special has a new (for the U.S. auto industry) 135 h.p., cast-iron V-6 engine, which replaces the more expensive aluminum V-8 and cuts $100 off last season's list prices. In styling, both the compact and standard Buicks are little changed, although the standard Buick's extra inch in width and two to four in length lend it a lower, more massive look...
Oldsmobile's F85 compact gets a convex grille and some trim alterations, but little other change, though there will he an F85 convertible added to the line. The standard big Olds joins the parade to the square look. Buick's compact Special will be available as a convertible and also with a new V-6 cast-iron engine as well as the current aluminum V8; the Six's price will drop to compete with other compacts, and it, too, will lose its pointy look. The bigger Buick, newly squared, will come in a hardtop convertible model...
...middle-priced market, G.M's high-performance Pontiac rose from 6.1% to 6.5%, of which a 1.9% share was supplied by its smaller version, the Tempest, which has a four-cylinder engine that brings its price down into the Corvair bracket. Long-ailing Buick and its new smaller Special model climbed from 2.5% to 4.1% of the market, thanks to less chrome and more performance. (One competitor calls Buick's mechanical performance this year "about the best in the industry.") Oldsmobile, with a loyal core of repeat buyers, inched up from 5.3% to 5-5%. though its smaller...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 pm.). Guest stars are James Garner, Julie London, Juliet Prowse...