Word: impactions
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...threw out Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, in favor of the only Prohibitionist ever to sit in Parliament. In 1959 the Labor Party only managed to hang onto Dundee by 714 votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead, the government suffered another set back. The progressive Conservative candidate, a popular lawyer, lost to his Laborite opponent, a trade-union official, by 4,955 votes, a Tory drop of 8.8% from the last general election...
Rare Events. The experiment will generate no atomic blast, but if it pays off it may have an explosive impact on the new and booming subscience of neutrino physics. Neutrinos are littleknown particles that have no mass of their own and no electric charge. They have nothing much except energy; they interact hardly at all with known kinds of matter. They are generated copiously in the centers of stars, and they move with the speed of light as they slip out into space and pass right through any stars they happen to hit. It has been calculated that a stream...
Center-Screen. Television wasted no time making the most of its advantages over printed journalism, which can hardly match its immediacy or visual impact. Words and pictures reached all the way to Japan, by television signals bounced off the U.S. satellite Relay I. Even before Lee Oswald was formally charged with the murder, CBS put on the air an Oswald interview taped by a New Orleans station last August. ABC telecast a film taken from inside the warehouse where the killer had knelt; the camera played on a litter of chicken bones. Each moment of the unfolding story flashed before...
Outrage & Loss. Newspapers had their greatest impact beyond television's reach, and there they brought the message home as no transitory broadcast could ever do. In Munich, crowds waiting impatiently for the first editions broke into scuffles when the supply proved inadequate; in Rio, beleaguered news vendors called for police protection. Dailies in South Korea's capital, Seoul, were trapped by a time differential, worked all night with skeleton staffs to publish extras at dawn...
...only unnecessary but foolish" for Douglas backers to allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth the cumulative emotional impact" of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which "extremists could not have managed better if they had written a script...