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...make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color TVs are due in about three years. Looking toward the late 1960s or the 1970s, manufacturers are also working on practically priced home microwave ranges that bake a potato in five minutes, ultrasonic washers that clean without suds or water, and compact thermoelectric appliances that heat, cool and freeze without the aid of moving parts...
...tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan is so compact that it can be parachuted to a battle area with its Shillelagh launcher set to fire. Neither vehicle nor missile system is in full production yet, but will...
...most microcircuitry goes into space-age uses, but it raises vast possibilities for new products. Tiny microcircuit radios have been built that can report back medical information from inside a patient's stomach. In industry, the most widespread use will be to make computers faster and more compact. No consumer products have been turned out yet, but in the labs the entire circuitry of a TV set has been reduced to the size of a soda cracker; this may eventually lead to the long-heralded TV set that hangs on the wall like a picture. Scientists have also contained...
...FORD. Reversing a two-year decline, Ford edged up from 26.1% to 26.4% on 543,463 autos sold. The big factors in Ford's comeback: the restyled, standard-sized Galaxie and the Comet, another '63 compact that was given longer, more flowing lines for '64. Ford's attractive new Thunderbird and roomier Continental are also selling well, but the preference for new looks and larger autos has dented sales of its little-changed intermediate Fairlane and compact Falcon...
...sale later this month in 422 selected Buick showrooms will go a newcomer that has already proved its mettle in Germany. The car: the Opel Kadett, a compact made by General Motors' German subsidiary in a new $250 million plant in the Ruhr, which G.M. feels will be more profitable if it produces at a higher volume. The Kadett's good looks have already dented Volkswagen's sales in Germany (TIME, Nov. 29), and G.M. hopes that the same thing will happen in the U.S. The company sold Opels through Buick once before, but dropped them...