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...from an entire region. Mondawmin, for example, is the most convenient retail center for 400,000 people within a 15-minute drive. With huge free parking lots laid out so that cars are never more than a few hundred feet from stores, the decentralized centers spare their customers the fender-bending frustration of wrestling cars through downtown traffic. With an eye out for women drivers, the developers of Seven Corners have even allotted 9-ft.-wide parking spaces, v. the conventional...
...week showed off its new models, on which it spent $300 million, the biggest styling and engineering changes in its history. The new cars, which will not be shown for sale until Oct. 30, are all lower, with a swept-back look that is climaxed by striking raised rear-fender fins. Hardtops and convertibles are as much as five inches lower, sedans down four inches; Plymouths and Dodges have been widened four inches to give them a bigger look. From Plymouth to Imperial, all sport new suspensions with torsion-bar springing on the front end. No word yet on prices...
Game Refuge. In West Warwick, R.I., John Ondrasek Jr. drove his wife out of the house with a shoe, chased her into a neighbor's yard where she crawled under a car, drummed on the auto's fender with the shoe to Hush her out, recalled too late that the neighbor, who collared him for local police, was a state trooper...
...either side, and there was no road of any kind, nothing but the pipeline to mark the route. Yet out of the blue came an Arab truck headed straight for the leading Land Rover, which hastily stopped. Swerving at the last moment, the Arab sideswiped it, tearing a rear fender, and drove on unconcerned...
...going-away look is dominated by higher, longer rear fenders (now known as "fins," and "air foils") ending in aquiline beaks that sniff disdainfully off into space like ships' figureheads in reverse. The fender line in many new cars, e.g., Cadillac, Plymouth, Chevrolet and Studebaker-Packard's Clipper, was borrowed from the shape of swept-wing aircraft to give autos a jet-propelled look. Cadillac, which has long built taillights into the fenders, now houses them in circular openings that project like twin exhaust pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears...