Word: compacter
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...bare, spare autos of postwar Europe, which sparked the American revolution in favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...
...written in 1908, has been amended 67 times, runs nearly three times as long as the federal Constitution and, Romney argues, acts as a drag on Michigan's progress. It was the fight for a new constitution that brought Romney from automaking to politics. Having started the compact-car revolution with the Rambler, Romney in 1959 sparked Michigan's constitutional convention (called Con-Con for short). In the midst of the Con-Con struggle, he declared that he was going to run for Governor. Romney proceeded to build his gubernatorial campaign around Con-Con, and when...
...every possible fabric from linen to leopard, can be made to look entirely new by a switch in ribbon color or the substitution of feather for flower. They are firm enough to hold their own high shape, are better even than the bouffant hairdo; nothing, neither wind nor compact car, is likely to flatten them or leave them bedraggled...
...complete is IBM's line of 14 computers, ranging from the compact 1440 (average monthly rent: $2,600) to the huge 7090 ($63,000 monthly), that competitors can find no chinks in its armor. IBM's army of salesmen is the industry's best paid-incomes average $16,000 to $20.000 a year-and most numerous. Complains Dr. Louis T. Rader, president of Sperry-Rand's Univac division: "It doesn't do much good to build a better mousetrap if the other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen...
...Walter W. Finke, who heads his company's computer division, believes that the only way to compete effectively with IBM is to match its breadth. Minneapolis-Honeywell is preparing two new systems to compete with IBM's 7070 and 7080 systems, may also bring out a compact computer. But few companies can-or want to-risk so much. After all, as its competitors scheme to upset its dominance, IBM is quietly spending $115 million a year on research and development that could lead to even better computers in a business noted for rapid obsolescence...