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...hardly a new thought that a small car will crumple more easily in a crash than a big auto, but just how much does the safety risk grow as cars shrink? To find out, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group financed by auto insurers, ran a series of head-on test crashes at 40 to 50 m.p.h. Each collision pitted a small car against a larger model produced by the same U.S. manufacturer: a Chevrolet Vega against an Impala, a Ford Pinto against a Galaxie, a Dodge Colt against a Plymouth Fury, an American Motors Gremlin against...
...human being"--it's just a little too narrow right now. Harvard and MIT should both be rezoned so that they can't build anything more and the city should take by public domain any housing that can't be called part of the campus. If they won't shrink we ought to cut their arms...
What makes the economists' forecast for 1972 so encouraging is the amount of real, noninflationary growth. Heller expects that the rate of real growth will jump to 6¼%; meanwhile, the inflation rate will shrink from this year's 4.7% to 3%. If those results are achieved, the U.S. economy will expand faster next year than at any time since the mid-'60s. One bread-and-butter result, predict Heller, Grove and Eckstein, will be a reduction in the unemployment rate from the current...
...goods because Americans will have to pay more dollars for the things they import. In the short run, however, countries such as Germany and Japan, which now hold $27 billion as part of their national reserves, will take a beating. The value of their dollar assets is expected to shrink, perhaps by as much as 12% to 15%, as the prices of their own currencies rise. The only way foreign holders of dollars will be able to get full value for them is by spending them for American goods or services, or investing in U.S. securities...
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...