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Greatest Deterrent. Physicist Taylor's warning has not been lightly taken; his credentials are impressive. During his seven years at the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, he specialized in the design of compact and efficient A-bombs. Though Taylor admits that the fabrication of such devices is beyond the capability of basement bombsmiths, he feels that the manufacture of less sophisticated and powerful weapons...
...Marceau must have surpassed all his childhood ambitions. His show is a pure delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to form a right angle of it--he becomes a vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable...
Right on target too. Today, 70% of AMC's production is in the compact Hornet and the subcompact Gremlin. The little cars have turned out to be a particular hit with younger buyers. In 1967 the average age of an AMC car buyer was 62; today...
...there is any hope for Europe's speaking with a strong and effective voice in the world, it can only be in the political form advocated by France: a compact between the states, not some faceless amalgam of regions governed by a parliamentary regime of bankrupt political parties, speaking Esperanto and cast adrift from their rich cultural and intellectual heritages...
Through January and the first ten days of February, compact and subcompact cars as a group (including imports) captured more than half the market for the first time-53%, to be exact...