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Funny Business. For the present, at least, New Yorkers are most aware of their fair in terms of the bumper-to-bumper embolisms the highway expansion program is causing in the borough of Queens. Travelers taxiing into the city from La Guardia and Idlewild airports are sometimes dumfounded to find a full-fledged traffic jam of early bird commuters at 6 a.m. But fair officials seem confident that when the new network of roads is in operation, their facilities will be able to handle a traffic-jamless 36,000 people an hour coming...
While Detroit's Big Three hymned the bumper-to-bumper newness of their 1963 cars, AMC went out of its way to quash rumors that its line had been drastically restyled. In fact, AMC's new models had been-for AMC-extensively changed. The company's American has new, flowing lines that make it look longer and lower than its boxy predecessor (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...
Smiling broadly, Lodge strolled up and down, saying to everyone "My name is George Lodge." Several young ladies with him carried wicker baskets full of bottle tops, buttons, bumper stickers, and pamphlets...
...Mexico, wanders through the city, meets rich Italian immigrants, becomes involved, and eventually likes what he sees. But the story is of less significance than the cumulative effect of the picture's vignettes-some sharp, some silly, all sardonic. The hero, stopping to rest, sits on the bumper of an automobile. Suddenly he rises and leaps away, just as another car smashes into the bumper-demonstrating how Americans park their expensive cars. At" a bar, Italian artists are prostituting their genius doing caricatures of sloppy rich American drunks...
Fastback is a big word in Detroit this year. It denotes a car whose silhouette flows from windshield to rear bumper in a continuous, rounded, convex curve. Chevrolet's completely redesigned Corvette hardtop is a fastback. So is the Studebaker Avanti (TIME, April 13). Ford calls its '63 Comet and Falcon hard-tops fastbacks, but they are really only "semi-fastbacks" because their rear windows break the curve...