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...Eric Martin as Jack Point, and he is superb. With his pale, drawn, expressive face he makes a sad jester, but a funny one, so that his transition from comedy to pathos occasions no jolt, because both elements are in the character from the beginning. His movements are compact of nimbleness, and he can sing...
Basic Transportation. The success of the Rambler is not luck but the result of a ten-year-old program. After World War II, the late George Mason, then company president, concluded from market surveys that the U.S. was ready to return to "basic transportation" and a smaller, compact car. While other U.S. cars became costlier and heavier, Mason and his successor, Romney, introduced the first Rambler in 1950, drove it into the field, where the only competition was foreign. To cut costs, Romney consolidated field organization, factories and production, kept model changes at a minimum. He pushed Rambler...
...FOUR TO GO, by Rex Stout (Viking; $2.95), is "compact and full of meat . . . The use of the mind is. as always, pre-eminent...
Still, one favorite quasi-statistical subject for speculation is what Harvard men do after graduation, and Tests and Placement tried again with last year's Class of 1958. The survey was far more compact and immediate, and many of the questionnaires were returned before the students had left the College, jumping the return up to 94 per cent of the total class...
...Tend to freeze nuclear-weapons technology at the big-warhead stage, keep the U.S. from developing compact, versatile, low-fallout nuclear weapons. To provide a range of choices in between "suicide or surrender," argues Kissinger, the free world urgently needs, along with more conventional forces, a wide spectrum of low-fallout, tactical nuclear weapons...