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...ARBOR, Mich.--University of Michigan students have constructed a light-weight "Super Mileage Vehicle," with which they hope to break the world's record for automobile mileage of 1750 miles per gallon, The Chronicle of Higher Education said this week...
...disappearance of the exotic car would hurt the development of automotive technology. Those sweet chariots pioneered, among other things, techniques for maintaining stability at high speeds, and were early users of radial tires and light-weight alloys that later became popular on mass-produced models...
Following that line of thought, light-weight oarsmen from East to West, and North to South might just as well place their oars into winter storage, since Harvard's lights swept away with the laurels in the lightweight eights event and regrouped to place second in the fours division behind a mixed entry stroked by Harvard senior light Lief Soderberg...
Meanwhile, the lightweight varsity suffered its first loss to another light-weight crew, losing to the same B.U. eight they defeated three weeks ago in the Greater Boston Championships. B.U. rowed the race in 3:12.8, while Radcliffe finished second in the field of five...
...with what it regards as its most potentially successful model: the Pacer. Glassy, small and wide, with plenty of room for passengers, the Pacer, says A.M.C.'s Gerald Meyers, "is our strongest product expression yet of giving the public what it wants." Because of the unavailability of the light-weight Wankel engine that had been planned for the car, the Pacer is still 3,000 Ibs. But, says Meyers, "we're going to get there -a 2,000-lb. car with an engine big enough to carry an air conditioner...