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...ATOMICS INTERNATIONAL is perfecting compact nuclear reactors to provide electricity in space vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: Strength Through Change | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...eight 6-volt batteries may be recharged overnight simply by plugging the whole thing into the garage socket. The cost of operation (including depreciation on the car itself) is estimated by Stuart to be around 4? a mile, as opposed to about 8? a mile for the standard gasoline compact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: The Plug-In Compact | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Since Detroit's compact cars first began pouring into U.S. streets two years ago, they have been knocking off their imported rivals as if they were so many Los Angeles pedestrians. Total U.S. sales of imported cars skidded from a record 614,000 in pre-compact 1959 to an anticipated 375,000 this year, and import dealers have been run out of business in droves. But last week there were signs that the compacts had done their worst. In September the foreign invaders took nearly 9% of the U.S. auto market-their highest share in 20 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Import Revival | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Robert Alan Morse is 30 years old but looks as if he were pushing 19. Small and compact, with a boyish shock of unarranged light brown hair, bright pannikin eyes and a look-ma smile, he seems to have been formed by a head-on collision between Mickey Rooney and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is the little ploy next door, and the vast delight of How to Succeed is in watching this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: I Believe in You | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...combination of engineer and articulate salesman, Cole learned his engineering at General Motors Institute, the company engineering school, was chief engineer at Cadillac and then Chevrolet before he took over Chevy in 1956. He directed the development of the Corvette sports car and the Corvair air-cooled, rear-engine compact. Last year, introducing Detroit to the sales potential of pizazz with his chromed-up Monza, Cole whipped Chevy to record sales of 1,730,000-the most for any car in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Who's What at G.M. | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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