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Tall Talking. The measures will get Britain temporarily over its balance-of-payments hump. But after all the tall Tory talking, Britons of both parties had expected and hoped for considerably more; everyone, it seemed, had been braced for dramatic, tough new measures to overhaul the flagging economy. "Is there anything new?" asked the Tory Daily Telegraph. "Where are the stern cures for fundamental weaknesses of the economy we were led to expect? Where is the dynamic doctrine, the fresh stimulus that is to put new drive into the exporter...
Sitting atop the 1,000-ft. hump that gives the island its name, Father Riou's Notre Dame des Palmistes mission hospital treats 9,000 patients each year for TB, leprosy, venereal disease and a catalogue of other ills. So many come from the mainland to be treated that an outpatient hostelry is being built for them...
...compacts by $19 on the economy series and $34 on the luxury models; Chevrolet trimmed $35 off its Corvair line. Pontiac introduced its new four-cylinder Tempest compact, which has a transaxle-a combination of transmission and axle in the rear-that almost completely eliminates the front-seat transmission hump. It set the factory list price for the four-door sedan at $1,975, or $200 below prices of the Buick Special and Oldsmobile F85 sedan compacts...
This eliminates the hump in the front and the back floors, gives the car better balance by more evenly distributing weight between the front and the rear...
...with the Hump. The newest car in 1961 will be Pontiac's four-cylinder compact, the Tempest. The first four-cylinder engine in a G.M. car in 30 years, the new water-cooled engine will generate 130 h.p. It will be mounted at a 45° angle to provide the Tempest with a low hood line. The Tempest will be similar to the Corvair in styling, but will be five to ten inches longer. The Tempest will also feature a trans-axle, a driveshaft system that has the engine up front but the transmission and differential in the rear...