Autos: Pretty Pictures, Pretty Cars

Not since 1957, when they scored a smashing success with the high-finned Forward Look, have Chrysler Corp. designers shown any great insight into the U.S. public's taste in auto design. But last week, as Chrysler released photographs of most of its 1963 models, it was clear that someone up there had got the picture.

Like Chrysler Corp. itself, the new Chrysler cars are in transition. Only a year ago, flamboyant C.C. ("Tex") Colbert was replaced as czar of Chrysler by a duumvirate: Chairman George Love, 62, and aggressive President Lynn Townsend, 43. Townsend,...

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