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...cannot roam all over the place either, but they can reach many more points than a rail system can, and Detroit is now moving to upgrade bus transportation. GM, the nation's largest maker of city buses, is spending $32 million redesigning theirs to provide more comfortable seats, a smoother suspension, wider doors and better visibility for both driver and passengers. Chrysler and American Motors both have Government contracts to develop new buses...
...Smoother-rolling radial tires could become universal. Cars may be made almost entirely of plastic to cut body weight?though not if the oil shortage continues to reduce the supply of petrochemical feedstocks from which plastics are made. Autos will almost surely be shorter in front and rear and roomier inside. They will probably be more expensive but possibly built to last longer; annual model changes are already becoming less pronounced, and the public is likely to be more impressed with quality construction than frequent cosmetic restyling. Says AMC's Chapin: "I think we're headed toward smaller, more efficient...
...slip, it neatly symbolizes the transcendent banality that is shot through the movie like a dose of glucose. Kahlil Gibran would sound like Wittgenstein next to the woozy wisdom dispensed here: "You'd be surprised how a little courtesy all around makes the roughest problems so much smoother." "There are moments in every man's life when he glimpses the eternal." "We teach that virtue lies in moderation...
Coach Peter Carter said that the course was much smoother yesterday than it had been for Thursday's trials...
...left the furnace was repaired and overhauled at a cost of only $3,000. Workers had been asking for the adjustments for years; once they were made, spoilage dropped from 29% of output to 9%. In addition, a few storage racks and inspection tables were rearranged to permit a smoother flow of work. Two crucial but low-paid employees who operated a pipe straightening machine were given raises from $3.70 to $4.07 an hour. And the workers made a relatively minor change in their production schedule to prevent some machines lying idle while different sizes of pipe were being processed...