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Unlike Britain, a compact country abounding with newspapers of national character (ten daily, eight Sunday), the U.S. has no national newspapers. And there are many who doubt that the U.S. needs or would sustain one. The functions of a national newspaper are already performed by some of the nation's newsmagazines, as well as by news coverage on radio and TV. Moreover, the continental span-2,807 miles-poses formidable problems to any paper trying to reach readers in Los Angeles, New York, Madawaska, Me., and Brownsville, Texas, with the same news at the same time. But despite such...
...electrode into the heart wall and leads the connecting wire through a tunnel under the skin to another incision in the abdomen, just to the left of the navel. He sets the pacemaker on a bed of abdominal muscle. Only 2 by 3 by ½ in., it is so compact that the patient can bend double without feeling it. The battery should last four to five years, and failure is not fatal. The heart jogs along until the battery is replaced...
...nation's character, like a man's, can be read in the lines on its face. The roads that lace the U.S.'s 110,000 hamlets, towns and cities into a single organism have transformed a remote, leisurely agricultural society into a compact, highspeed industrial civilization that is in constant pursuit of mobility...
...musical mayhem." But in matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed for $13.75 and a jade and diamond ring...
While tumult and hubbub reigned in U.A.W. councils, Detroit last week wound up its new model offerings with the introduction of the 1962 Buicks. As standard equipment, the compact Special has a new (for the U.S. auto industry) 135 h.p., cast-iron V-6 engine, which replaces the more expensive aluminum V-8 and cuts $100 off last season's list prices. In styling, both the compact and standard Buicks are little changed, although the standard Buick's extra inch in width and two to four in length lend it a lower, more massive look...