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...plan, introduced by a special legislative commission last March, proposes a New England compact which would organize a regional medical and dental school training program. Under the compact, schools would receive from the New England states the financial difference between tuition of the New England residents accepted at the schools and the cost to the university of an expanded program...
...Yachting Audar. A compact communications and navigation aid for small ships has been developed by Manhattan's Radio Industries Corp. Working on the same principles as echo-ranging radar, but sending out high-pitched "beeps" of sound instead of pulses of electrical energy...
...editorials varied. For example, the New York Tribune: "If poisonous gases can be used in warfare, the way is opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery." The Washington Post: ". . . Since all the nations at war have violated some compact or other . . . suffocation by gas is as decent a method of murder as blowing up trenches by mines, torpedoing a vessel or dropping bombs from an airship...
Composer Copland turned in a compact (95 minutes), clean-scrubbed score. The opera's melodic high point was an eight-minute love duet. Elsewhere, Copland managed to give a fairly musical lift to such prosy lines as "Not for me, Mrs. Moss. I've already had three helpings." By the supporting fullness of his orchestra, he also made the singers' voices sound warmer than they do in most contemporary opera. But his music slid too easily from one cool harmony to another, and on the whole, held as little punch as the libretto. When it was over...
...engine delivers as many horsepower-miles per gallon of gasoline as a standard automobile engine, and the exhaust gases are several hundred degrees cooler. While cooling systems for automobile gas turbines had been designed before, they were too bulky to be practical. Chrysler's system is so compact that the whole engine weighs only 600 Ibs., 200 Ibs. less than a standard Plymouth engine...