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...FIAT will soon be put on the European market to compete with Volkswagen and Renault. To replace the famed Topolino as its smallest and cheapest car (TIME, Oct. 18), Fiat is rolling out the "Popolare." The boxy, four-passenger, 21.5-h.p. lightweight (1,234 lbs.) car is tagged at $944 before taxes in Rome, v. $1,090 for the Topolino. Current production of the Popolare...
...Smallest Transmitter. A 20-mm. shell is less than an inch in diameter, but Roy J. Smollet of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has built a radio transmitter that fits into its nose and leaves room to spare. The transmitter has one transistor, a coil half an inch across, and a mercury battery considerably smaller than a dime. When the shell is fired, it sends out a wave that tells how the shell is spinning and whether it is wobbling in its flight...
Dinky Inkie: The smallest of incandescent spots...
...France there are 208,250 building contractors, 90% of whom employ fewer than six workers. The smallest contract is sublet to a myriad of tiny enterprises. If they have the luck to find an honest contractor, the French couple may have the pleasure of watching squads of carpenters, masons, plasterers and plumbers move on and off the job with scant regard for each other or for the order of their work, and of seeing walls lie bare for months at a time. The average time to complete a French house: 2½ years...
...Callander, Ont., word leaked that Marie Dionne, 20, smallest and quietest of the four surviving Dionne quintuplets (TIME, Aug. 16), who a month ago came home from a Montreal college for a holiday, had neither gone back to school nor been seen outside the big Dionne mansion since her return. At Marguerite Bourgeoys College, officials claimed that Marie had been sick. But Oliva ("Papa") Dionne said no, Marie was not ailing, just lonely and sick of the school...