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...work of art is often a synopsis of its time. Versailles tells of 17th century French rationalism in its orderly facades and the geometry of its gardens. Michelangelo's sculpture reveals in its robust anatomy the renaissance of man's faith in himself. Yet few objects compact so much of a world into a microcosm as the Romanesque cross recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...foul!" Safety engineers complained that the demonstration was longer on publicity value than on detached scientific measurements. Renault President Vin cent Grob called the experiment "biased, proving only that if a big, heavy object can be directed to hit a small object, the small object can be hurt." U.S. compact-car makers, who have long resented being lumped with foreign-made economy cars in statistical surveys, discreetly pointed out that the only U.S.-made compacts involved in the Connecticut tests (two Falcons and a Rambler) had emerged in comparatively good condition-but naturally, these nondramatic collisions did not make...
More impressive than Mulcahy's flashy tests are some sober statistics compiled in recent months by various state authorities. A survey made last year by Illinois' Bureau of Traffic reported that the death rate of compact and small-car drivers was double the death rate of other passenger-car drivers. A similar report by Maine, published in April, showed a fatality rate for persons in compacts (defined as cars under 3,000 lbs.) that is 51 times as great as that of full-size cars. Studies of the California Highway Patrol found that small-car occupants suffer...
...Strategic Air Command. His assignment came about because such Air Force officials as Brigadier General John W. Sessums and Research and Development Specialist Trevor Gardner had insisted that an ICBM should be built, and Princeton Atomic Scientist Dr. John von Neumann had argued that nuclear explosives could be made compact enough for missile delivery...
...intermediate-class cars, will be available in eight models ranging from a station wagon to a convertible. Abernethy has also given the Classic a face-lift and tooled up for a fastback sports car that will probably be called either the Marlin or Sceptre. The handsome American compact will continue almost unchanged. Abernethy has no intention of abandoning the image of making "sensible cars" that Romney created for the company, but, being a sensible type himself, he wants to have models in the bigger class where affluent Americans are now spending the bulk of their auto dollars...