Word: compacter
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...Mustian family back a dozen years or so. It is more richly textured, more artfully woven than A Long and Happy Life, subtly fabricating a world of startling and compelling beauty. The book is "a Southern novel" in the sense that the Odyssey is "a Greek poem." Its coiled, compact style and solid substance establish Author Price, 33, as a prose poet of epicritic sensibility...
...General Motors, the big Pontiac is steady, while the intermediate Tem pest is up; the big Olds is slightly down, the F85 is up; the Chevelle and Chevy II are up, but sales of the compact Corvair are down by more than $100 million so far this model year, partly because of publicity about accident suits. Ford Motor can scarcely produce enough Mustangs and Lincolns to meet demand, but its Comet is a disappointment, and the compact Falcon is 13% behind last year's sales. At Chrysler, the compact Dart and Valiant are down, but the big Chrysler...
Following an idea of Dr. James B. Conant, Sanford helped organize an Interstate Compact on Education, planned as a partnership between the educational and political leadership among the states to make policy suggestions. Supporters of the proposal hope to reach a broad audience the way Conant did, avoiding the inflexibility of a central authority...
...education program for the state, in the Compact, and in the study group which he is now conducting at Duke University, the overriding question for Sanford is how to make the state government more effective. "A lot of people think the state is on the way out," he says, "for it has been an historical, not a constitutional, feeling since the Roosevelt days that the state is not effective in education; the attitude for years has been that all the wisdom lies in one place...
When other companies moved in on the compact market with racy V-8 engines and bucket seats, A.M.C. was styled out. With growing national prosperity, the desire for compacts and economy faded. And for the small segment of buyers still primarily concerned with economy, high production costs make A.M.C. Americans $200 to $300 more expensive than throaty little Volkswagens. The Volks, though smaller and lighter than the American, outsells it better than 4 to 1 in the economy market, for which they compete...