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Just as 13 of 1958's models have aluminum grilles, so 1960's cars will spread out to more and more uses for aluminum. General Motors, which has been working toward a small, compact car (TIME, June 23), will finally get it on the road late next year. Main feature: an aluminum engine, which will save 150 Ibs., in turn reduce overall engine weight 30% by means of lighter mountings, braces, etc. Up to now every aluminum engine required either a ferrous liner or a chromium coating for cylinder bores; both were expensive to make and troublesome...
...thinking from that year went "beyond nationalism." Working with his staff and with the U.S. Congress, he wrote a bill that invented the concept of a "free, associated state." It was enacted "in the nature of a compact" between Congress (which approved it in 1950) and the Puerto Rican people (who ratified it in a referendum). Chiefly, the bill authorized Puerto Rico to write itself a constitution for complete local self-government and provided for U.S.-Puerto Rican relationship. Main effects...
...smooth, American-type riding qualities, plenty of gadgets, loads of interior and luggage space and lots of horsepower. In effect, the desire is for everything the U.S. car already is, only 10 ft. shorter, and somehow a lot cheaper. In any case, a U.S. model would probably be a "compact" car, something like the Rambler, rather than a small car. Nor will it be cheap. Volkswagen learned that fact of life. It planned to manufacture in the U.S., but found that it cost at least $100 per car more. There was one overriding difference-labor cost...
...when the Big Three put out a compact car, the U.S. may see a complete reshuffling of its autos. Sales of today's medium-priced models, which are taking the worst sales licking, may shrink further, and some cars may drop out entirely. In their place, bigger, flashier Fords, Chevies and Plymouths may move up to fill the gap between low-priced and high-priced autos. At the bottom will be a new market for utility autos, simply for transportation...
...side of Miami Beach's island, the Pérez Jiménez retreat comes equipped with the standard swimming pool and cabanas; a lush lawn dotted with royal palms, hibiscus and ixora slopes down to the bay. New Orleans-style grillwork flanks the entrance. Low and relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled kitchen with...