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...given way to the hardtop, the circus (TIME, April 13) has undergone many a change. But nothing has changed more than its co-attraction, the sideshow. Once a traveling chamber of biological horrors, it has now been tamed into a sort of Ed Sullivan variety show with cotton candy and Cracker Jack. Rationalizing the metamorphosis is Nate Eagle, 62, the corpulent, mustachioed talker and general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. Says horn-voiced Eagle: "You don't find freaks in sideshows any more. You find strange people, odd people, unusual people-sword swallowers, tattooed...
...Chevrolet's 1963 Corvette will get its first major face-lifting: boxy, squarish front and a "fastback" line for the hardtop model...
Pontiac. Following the 1962 trend toward pizazz. Pontiac has turned out a Grand Prix hardtop coupe replete with stick shift, bucket seats and dual exhaust pipes. To differentiate it from the standard Pontiacs. which have new prow-shaped grilles, the Grand Prix grille is split by a vertical wedge. Like most 1962 cars, Pontiacs have such improved maintenance features as 35.000-mile chassis-lubrication intervals, 4.000-mile oil changes and two-year radiator coolant...
...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 for the first time. Cadillac will have no radical new figure, except that its tailfins will be clipped somewhat, straightening out the sharp look in the rear...
...Both have long, low hoods and short, sloping rear decks. The Dart has abandoned its curly rear fin for an unadorned, clean rear-fender line, has changed its concave grille to a flat one with a forward thrust. The pizazz model, Polara, will come out only in two-door hardtop and convertible models. Both Dodge and Plymouth retain their 1961 engines but will seem a lot livelier because they are 300-400 lbs. lighter. Plymouth's Valiant now becomes Chrysler's Valiant, gets only a few physical changes: an end to the simulated rear spare "donut" wheel, wider...