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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the poor showing of the subcompacts, Detroit must steadily trim car size and weight if it is to meet a congressionally imposed gas economy standard of 27.5 miles per gallon by 1985 (v. an average of 17.6 m.p.g. for the 1976s). GM plans to introduce smaller, more fuel-efficient versions of its heavy standard-sized models this fall. Chrysler is currently offering a Japanese-made sub-compact called the Plymouth Arrow and intends to produce its own domestically built subcompact next year. Whether or not American motorists can ever learn to love them, smaller cars appear to be firmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Back to 'More Car per Car' | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Rosovsky said last month he favors confining the search to those within the University because the Faculty cannot afford to add to the size and cost of the administrative staff and because he places "considerable weight on the need for someone intimately familiar with the affairs of the College...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Fox, Jewett Lead List For Dean Post | 6/2/1976 | See Source »

...into the skiff. The three of us were drenched. Willie, a local fisherman, grinned at the adventure. Our hulking captain frowned, grabbed a bucket and handed one to me. Brando read my fear. "Don't worry," he shouted. "When the rain hits, it will flatten the sea... the weight of the rain water." Our boat sped into the wall of rain; the sea flattened, and a few minutes later we beached the boat on the white sands of a small, S-shaped island-Brando's bird sanctuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Private World of Marlon Brando | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Ajootian, whose brother Charles won the 35-lb. weight throw for Harvard in the indoor NCAA's back in 1969, has a good chance to continue the family's winning tradition at this year's outdoor version, to be held in Philadelphia the weekend of June...

Author: By Steven J. Parker, | Title: Embree, Ajootian Cop Gold Medals at IC4A's | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

America was humiliated at the Munich Olympics when Chris Taylor, the 400-plus pound lug who had flopped his way into America's heart, was torn to pieces by a sneaky little Russian half his weight (it is no coincidence that late August-early September is marked by historians as the time that detente turned in the Russians' favor); but Chris Taylor is nothing compared to America's greatest Wrestlers. He hasn't even been able to break into the top ten contenders list for the west coast, which is the easiest of all the professional wrestling conferences. The likes...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Gnashed Teeth | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

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