Word: compacter
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...last decade Princeton has felt its residential college and educational environment fitted its undergraduates as well if not better than the most successful house plan. After all, Harvard and Yale had more students and stood in the midst of bustling cities. What need had Princeton to divide its compact undergraduate life when everyone lived five minutes walk from everyone else on a green, tree-covered campus...
Strategic Conception: Emphasis on compact, hard-hitting mobility; well-balanced for defense but, in the German tradition, built for offense. Each armored division will have twice as many tanks as the German Panzer division of World War II, and immensely more firepower. Set up to operate efficiently as a single force, yet scatter quickly into small units and thus present a poor target for atomic attack. Arms: The U.S. has already stockpiled, mostly in the U.S., the bulk of Germany's first needs, $500 million worth of guns, ammunition, tanks and planes. By 1956, Germans hope to be making...
...facing an altogether unnecessary defeat in November-a defeat which elementary political intelligence could have made a sweeping Republican victory. Because of stupidity, ineptness, arrogance on the part of a few men who have been placed in positions of power we are going into this campaign, not with a compact army but with scattered regiments. What seems not to be understood by the dolts who have usurped control of the party is that the National Committee is the catalyst of the party. But the little hard core of men close to the President ignore the organization. The symbol of this...
...experimental nuclear power reactors now in operation (e.g., at Arco. Idaho and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) have yet to match conventional power plants in cost per kilowatt. Last week the Army and the Atomic Energy Commission announced plans for a significant practical advance in the field of atomic power: a compact, 1.700-kilowatt nuclear power plant that can be broken down and airlifted piece by piece to U.S. bases overseas...
...Change. A compact, lightweight diesel engine for small fishing and pleasure boats was put on sale by General Motors. The 1,500-lb. engine delivers 87 h.p. to the propeller. G.M. claims that it is quieter, cheaper to operate and safer than a gas engine. Price...