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...times the immediate impact of a news event leads to exaggeration and distortion of the real story. This tended to be the case with the primary election in New Hampshire, which, with all the polling and computing and promoting, was inflated beyond its scope. In a cool assessment of the results, THE NATION takes measure of New Hampshire's significance in the race for the Republican nomination for President...
...white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...
...External Impact...
...seconds after the first round began, Szum landed his first punch, a fearsome right hook to Cobey's left temple. Obviously stunned by the impact, Cobey could offer little resistance as Szum swarmed in with a series of clubbing rights and lefts that floored his opponent...
Close to the canvas himself in the third and seemingly helpless in the fifth, Clay entered the sixth round obviously stronger than the 31 (sic)-year-old Liston. Clay was never hit with the full impact of Liston's awesome left hook, but he withstood considerable punishment and retained the speed and deceptivenss which rendered Liston sluggish and frustrated by the sixth...