Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such agent-diplomat is Nick Panella, 39, a graduate of The Bronx, Manhattan's Hunter College, and most of the world's drug trade centers: New York, Rome, Istanbul, Marseille, Montreal and Paris. Dark and compact, Panella describes his appearance as "the stereotype of the Italian wise ass"-a distinct asset in the trade. "Up in East Harlem," he says, "nobody's going to introduce any bright-eyed, 6-ft. Ryan to anybody worth talking to in drugs. But I fit right in. They'll sell to someone who looks like...
Unity and punctuality were to be the watchwords of this convention-in pointed contrast to the discordant Democrats. "The convention will be short, compact and precise," declared Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole. "We want a convention that will be watched-and not just by insomniacs." Everything is under control, observes the wry Dole, including a "spontaneous floor demonstration for Nixon and Agnew." Dissent is muted, polite, served up in small doses. There is no Bella Abzug storming around denouncing the nominee; instead Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, makes a discreet, ladylike case...
...necessary parts and assembling campers and trailers. Some of the nation's largest corporations, however, are also getting into the business. Boise Cascade, W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods have bought existing companies. Apeco Corp. this month began selling the first travel trailer designed to be towed by a compact car, and General Motors next year will begin making and selling its own recreational vehicles...
...rotary-it's ten times better than the Mazda." And just when might that be? GM officers will not answer, but according to persistent rumors around Detroit, the company will offer rotary engines as an option on '75 Vegas and perhaps a year later on a compact. Most engineers agree that rotary engines will first become available on subcompacts and progress to larger-sized cars...
...BEST Chinese wisecrackers is a compact tidbit of Zen that involves two tigers who pursue their helpless victim. Leaving them angrily howling below, he climbs a rope, only to find two mice gnawing through it from above. Represented by chattering dentures extended on long poles, they are about to sever his lifeline, when he spies a strawberry. Seizing and eating it, he reaches a complete enlightenment of Zen, found through the perfection of the fruit, and abandoning his mortal fate with a blissful cry of "Strawberry!", he drops to the waiting tigers below as the stage blacks...