Word: impactions
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...fine wires in the Explorer's meteor-detecting grids have been broken, presumably by micrometeorites. The microphone inside the satellite also picked up the impact of an object against the satellite's skin...
...play is fitted out with much such modern plumbing. Yet in inventiveness and impact alike, it somehow falls short. It falls short for one thing because it is so unmercifully long; for another, because it achieves no pervasive tone or attitude. It reupholsters the Oedipus story rather than reshapes it; it is too close to a stunt at the outset, too close to Sophocles at the end. And for all its merits, an intelligent production has actors who are rather at odds with their roles or at odds with each other. But perhaps The Infernal Machine suffers most...
...Soviet-Ceylonese cultural pact, 21 Russian teachers last week bustled about the island meeting their Ceylonese counterparts. Premier Banda professes no fear that his tiny country might be overwhelmed in such exchanges. "My dear fellow," he assured a visitor, "there is great power in Buddhist thought. Our impact is much greater than our size would suggest." As proof, Banda cites the fact that the Buddhist scholar he sent to Moscow as Ceylon's first ambassador "is very much in demand at Moscow and other universities for lectures." The ambassador has just returned to reveal to his countrymen that crime...
Last week Campanella was driving to his home in Glen Cove, N.Y. when his rented 1957 Chevrolet sedan went off the road and crashed into a telephone pole. Campy was bent into a pretzel within the overturned car. His bull neck probably saved him from death, but the impact fractured the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and compressed the spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body...
...much inhumanity can a man bear to inflict on his fellow men before his conscience calls a halt? The answer to this question is the substance of a harrowing little novel from Holland that combines the impact of a documentary film with the prodding of a remorseless sermon. The scene is Westerbork, a concentration camp in occupied Holland, from which Jews were sent on to Auschwitz, Sobibor and other extermination centers in Eastern Europe. The book's real heroes and villains are Jews, while the Nazis are seen only as almost impersonal agents of evil...