AUTOS: The 1953 Models

The auto industry, though scrabbling for manpower and materials, last week was bursting with plans and hopes for 1953. In the works are the biggest batch of changes in a decade: new bodies, airconditioning, power steering, power brakes and engines so peppy that every driver can feel like a hot-rodder. By hiring women and bringing back pensioned employees (as the United Auto Workers asked Ford to do last week), automen think they can meet their arms schedules and still turn out 5,000,000 cars in 1953, about the same number as this year....