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...fall the Neighborhood Ten, a local civic group, protested that the hotel design did not fit in with the surrounding area. They particularly objected to the height of the building and the design of the facade facing the neighborhood. The new design alleviates those problems...
There was no need for translation, however, when they took to the stage of the Civic Opera. For this performance the Shenyang troupe used no tightropes and no trapezes. They did not heighten the drama of their performance with drum rolls or tense pauses. Their sleight of hand was charmingly, almost childishly transparent. The easiest of the stunts were executed with painstaking care; the most difficult were tossed off nonchalantly. Two girls juggled china vases with their feet. A man did a handstand atop a rickety pyramid of tables, chairs and bricks, then deliberately collapsed the pyramid...
...that the Detroit leviathans have tirelessly argued could not be met in time. Honda immediately informed the EPA that it is breaking ranks with most other car producers and would no longer seek a one-year postponement of the 1975 requirements. Company officials say that their compact car, the Civic, now marketed only in Japan, would carry the engine and go on sale...
...much thinner fuel mixture, using a lower ratio of gas to oxygen. Moreover, the cooling process in the cylinder is slowed to assist combustion of the fuel. All this reduces pollutant gases. The EPA tests revealed that the new engine is rather large for a small car like the Civic, and it burns about 20% more gas per mile than the smaller engines in other autos of the same weight. In bigger cars like GM's Vega, however, the Honda engines gave better than average mileage in the EPA tests. The principles of the CVCC engine have been known...
...twelve-story office building on the very same street in San Diego where he used to shine the shoes of C. Arnholt Smith, a fund-raising friend of Richard Nixon and Alessio's mentor and business associate. Alessio, named "Mr. San Diego" of 1964 by a local civic group, appreciates having friends in high places. In 1968, after years of contributing to Democratic campaigns, Alessio switched to the favorite and donated $26,000 to the winner...