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...such cars "jelly molds." Even non-sportsmen have more recently viewed them with alarm. Complained the Automobile Safety Association's President Arthur Stevens: the U.S. driver is "submerged down behind a chromium-draped engine hood, wide, slush-holding fenders, and a sloping, glass, mud-gathering shelf called a windshield, that at times even a Mixmaster couldn't clean." The American Automobile Association, noting the high costs of repairs, scored automakers for designs that "make it more necessary than ever before to replace large segments of the body as a result of damages from accidents." The rugged, reliable American...
...show the importance of the new sports-car trend, G.M. unwrapped three other futuristic sports cars, also made of fiber glass. Cadillac's three-passenger Le Mans is only 51 in. high to the top of its windshield, 5.3 in. lower than standard jobs, and 24.8 in. shorter, partly by virtue of vertical steel strips replacing the usual horizontal bumpers. Its souped-up engine develops 250 h.p.† Oldsmobile's low-slung Starfire convertible has a panoramic windshield extending around and past the door opening. Buick's 50.4-in.-high Wildcat, of black fiber glass with...
...Cadillac has a new sports convertible, the six-passenger El Dorado which, at $7,500, is the U.S.'s highest-priced mass-production car. It has a "wraparound" windshield that sweeps to the sides, wire wheels, and an Orion top that folds back under a steel cover. Cadillac's regular 1953 line has a wider, more massive hood and headlight visors that lengthen the fender line; prices are the same as in 1952 ($3,571 to $5,620). Optional: air conditioning, wire wheels or wire-wheel hubcaps, power steering, and an "autronic eye" control that dims headlights automatically...
...Chevrolet brought out a redesigned auto that is wider and lower than last year's. Other improvements this year: a new Powerglide transmission intended to eliminate complaints of high gas consumption, a one-piece curved windshield, a moisture-proof ignition system. A new, higher-priced line, the Bel Air series, is designed to compete with such medium-priced cars as Dodge. Prices are relatively unchanged...
...University Hall where IBM machines have naively arranged for an eight-day reading period. It can be felt along the river among the Houses, particuarly between the afternoon hours of one to four, and it pervades the streets, adorned periodically as they are with flapping tags attached to myriad windshield wipers. Yes, Cambridge alone might justify the babe's symbolism, but his traces are found elsewhere...