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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...
...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
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...ingenious bit of hybridization. The new Dodge, which has been christened the "Custom 880" and which will be larger than any current Dodge model, is to be built on the chassis of the 1962 Chrysler Newport, will sport the cleanly styled Newport body from rear bumper to windshield, and 1961 Dodge Polara metal from the windshield forward...
...back seat of the Humphrey limousine, he photographed the human details of the campaign. Just as a technical feat, this scene is unique, but it also constitutes a new high in realism and composition. While the senator and his party talk, Leacock scans the Wisconsin countryside through the rainswept windshield. Humphrey speaks glowingly about the state's rich land, but the camera takes in nothing but dreary rocks and gullies...