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...poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with a three-car garage. In the garage: his wife's Buick Roadmaster convertible, daughter Dorothy Anne's Buick Century convertible, and his personal, flashy Buick Skylark convertible, now being hopped up with a new experimental engine and transmission...
Unfazed, he returns with his thin volume of Keats to the flight deck in hopes of becoming skylark, but yet the resourceful owners of the Crimson Men's shop have designed tropical wear for every mood, at a pittance...
...feeling for cars, likes to trick up his own cars with new gadgets and styling changes. While former President Charlie Wilson was content to travel around in a sedate Cadillac sedan, Red Curtice likes to dash around his home town of Flint in a sporty grey-blue Buick Skylark. (He had it fitted with a wrap-around windshield long before it came out on the production models.) For Vice President Earl, who has built up the greatest industrial designing organization in the world, Curtice is a one-man poll to test new ideas. The trick, says Curtice, is simply...
...models follow the low and racy lines of last year's Skylark, are some three inches lower and as much as five inches longer than the 1953 models. The new cars have wrap-around windshields that give more visibility. Hoods have been lowered and fenders raised, so the driver can see his right front fender...
...first time in 18 years, Buick redesigned its entire line in the same year, at a cost of about $45 million. While most prices were unchanged from last year, the basic factory price of the Super convertible was cut $60 (to $2,700), while that of the Skylark sports car was slashed...