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For all its range and length, the book is satisfyingly cohesive where it might be sprawling. The key to this unity is Garcia Márquez's treatment of time. Consider the superb opening sentence: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to...
The rise of the subcompacts is not the only remarkable change overtaking Detroit. In the early 1970s, the automakers probably will have to hold down the power of their high-performance cars as one result of new federal pollution requirements. If so, the "muscle" cars like the Mustang Mach 1...
Dual-Purpose Engines. For Detroit's automakers, the ideal solution would be for oil companies to produce unleaded gasoline at present high-octane ratings. That would require the oilmen to build many new refineries, which would cost their industry about $4 billion, according to the American Petroleum Institute. That...
Ford and General Motors have already publicly agreed to do so. Last week G.M. announced that it will lower the compression ratio on most of next year's cars, enabling them to operate on unleaded gasoline of a relatively low octane rating. In a letter to 19 oil companies...
Chrysler's concern is understandable. Some of its most powerful engines have compression ratios so high that they cannot be adapted to lower-octane gasoline, and all but its three smaller engines could no longer be used. If the switch to lead-free gasoline is made, Chrysler will not...