Word: compaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently without audible warning, the police blocked all four streets around the plaza and corralled Barkley and 362 others-including at least a dozen other over-30 straights who had also accepted the merchants' invitation-into a compact mass. For four hours they were kept standing there, and then, at 3:30 a.m., the entire crowd was bused off to jail...
These booths are cleverly designed. Their over-hanging roofs lower to cover the (smaller) bases for overnight and bad weather storage, incorporating display, storage and roofing functions in one compact unit. The booths' unusual form would become recognized as a signal for their function-and this kind of visual guide can make a city more legible and therefore more comprehensible...
...When the compact formation reached the top of the hill, some Guardsmen knelt quickly and aimed at the students who were hurling rocks from below. A handful of demonstrators kept moving toward the troops. Other Guardsmen stood behind the kneeling troops, pointing their rifles down the hill. A few aimed over the students' heads. Several witnesses later claimed that an officer brought his baton down in a sweeping signal. Said Jim Minard, a sophomore from Warren, Ohio: "I was harassing this officer. I threw a stone at him, and he pointed a .45-caliber pistol...
...Trim and compact (5 ft. 9½ in.), the easygoing Haise is married to his high school girl friend, Mary Grant. The match seems ideal. Haise is a devoted family man. Mary is totally immersed in astronaut life and needs little help in translating the exotic technical language her husband and his fellow space travelers speak. The Raises have three children, and Mary's icy calm throughout her ordeal was all the more remarkable for the fact that she is expecting her fourth (which the family hopes will be a girl) in June...
...downward to smaller and lower-priced cars, but he disagrees on how far the trend is likely to go. G.M. concentrated much of its sales effort this year on the so-called intermediate cars, Chevelle, Tempest and Skylark; sales of intermediates have not increased. The expanding market is for compacts, an area where Ford's Maverick has a clear lead. In March, Plymouth's Valiant was second in compact sales, and Chevy's Nova was third...