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...German carmaker NSU Motorenwerke last week displayed an ultra-utilitarian sedan that will, it hopes, sire a new generation of automobiles. Called RO 80, the new car has a strange engine under the hood, one that increasingly intrigues the automotive industry...
...present stage. It is a non-piston gas engine consisting of a three-cornered rotor that swirls in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight. Doing away with the stop-and-start movements of the piston engine saves valuable power for a continuous circular movement. The RO 80 will feature two half-liter engines, placed side by side, yet even this will only take up half as much space as a conventional motor of equal power and weigh about two-thirds as much...
...ro-pa! Eu-ro-pa!" chanted thousands of Italian university students as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson stepped last week from an R.A.F. Com et at Rome's Ciampino airport. The cheer fitted Wilson's mood. Britain -once great but long insular - was again seeking admission to the six-nation Common Market, and through it to the larger Europe that the Market envisions. Wilson and his Foreign Secretary, George Brown, were in Italy on a dramatic mission to explore, with top Italian officials, Britain's chances for acceptance...
...least so long as Paul VI is Pope. Addressing a recent congress of Italian gynecolo gists and obstetricians, the Pope said that he needed more time to study the issue and that until he makes a decision, the present ban remains in force. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Ro mano then reinforced the point in a front-page editorial: "Assent to the un natural regulation of births would be assent to moral irresponsibility...
Indeed, Reagan's most deeply held conviction goes to the very heart of modern moderate Republicanism. He believes-echoing Dick Nixon-that the ro!e of Government in the nation's life should be to invigorate and assist individual effort, not, as he fears, to supplant...