Word: compacter
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...wake of the golfing boom-now the biggest in the history of the sport-is a burgeoning, popular, profitable boomlet: compact golf...
...Compact golf is several things. It is "pitch-and-putt," where the average hole is 50 yds.; "par-three" (also called "par-thirty" and "executive''), in which the average hole is 150 yds., with several par-four holes; and putting courses, also known as miniature golf...
Another factor in favor of compact courses is the skyrocketing cost of real estate. An 18-hole standard course takes 125-175 acres, but 18-hole par-three takes only 40 because of its smaller tees and greens and shortened fairways. This also enables compact courses to be built much closer to cities; some 200 of them are equipped with mercury-vapor lamps and are thronged far into the night...
...taking a bigger share of the typewriter market, but none of them can match the unusual trick of the new Smith-Corona portable, introduced last week; it can keep right on typing after its cord is pulled out of the socket. The source of its cordless energy is a compact, efficient power supply that has excited the inventive brain of U.S. industry: the nickel-cadmium battery. This versatile product can be recharged in an ordinary electric socket, can be made tiny enough to power a hearing aid, and is good for a total life of three or four thousand hours...
...which lasts long enough to run the portable typewriter up to ten hours before recharging is needed. Auto batteries use lead and acid as the elements to produce their chemical action; nickel-cadmiums use nickel and cadmium electrodes. European engineers after the war developed a way to make them compact in size and to seal them permanently so that no new battery fluid has to be added during their life. Today's vastly more sophisticated nickel-cadmiums need no maintenance, are shockproof and immune to cold, and can be recharged without danger of overcharging...