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...Japanese auto will be the first production-line car with a "stratified-charge" engine, a modified version of the standard auto engine. That modification, which does not require extensive retooling of production lines, allows the stratified-charge engine to run on mixtures of fuel that are considerably more "lean" (a high ratio of air to gasoline) than standard engines now burn. The result is more complete combustion in the engine's cylinders and the reduction of polluting exhaust gases escaping from the tail pipe...
...Honda's machine-as well as in versions under development by other companies-a mixture of fuel that would ordinarily be too lean to ignite in the cylinder is coaxed into burning by the ignition of an adjoining layer of much richer fuel. To accomplish this stratification of fuel, Honda's engineers added a small combustion chamber, to accommodate the richer mixture, at the top of each cylinder (see diagram); the chamber contains the spark plug and is equipped with its own intake valve...
...mystifying reasons, the play has been converted into a musical. Since the songs are clumsily inserted into the text, they simply interrupt the narrative flow. The music was composed by Michael J. Lewis and he has the soaring melodic imagination of a computer. The lyrics, supplied by Anthony Burgess, lean more toward economy than eloquence, and while Burgess's adaptation of the main body of the text is brisk and fluently idiomatic, it is emotionally reserved and poetically undernourished...
...Tries. Attaching the sunshade will be even more difficult. In the first option open to the astronauts, Conrad (who practiced the delicate maneuver on simulators in Houston) will edge the command ship alongside Skylab (see diagram). As he does this, Kerwin or Weitz will lean out of the hatch and attach three newly designed clamps to the ship-two near Skylab's base, one on the telescope mount. The clamps will be used to anchor lines running to the trapezoid-shaped covering. As the lines are tightened, the shade will be pulled into its proper position like the spinnaker...
Steinberg is fascinated with seals and hand-stamps. The round, official looking seals which he some years ago made one of his trademarks float at the edge of the horizon like suns, or, piled on each other, suggest a mound of bureaucratic rubbish, while pedestrians and lean dogs pass by. Automobile stamps mix with crocodile stamps in the wide space of squares or freeways; a dozen painters with easels pursue a dozen renderings of a peasant couple taken from a painting by Millet...