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...pressure-cooker ring, the heat (104°) took its toll. For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery...
...years; the company spent some $3,000,000 on research perfecting it. It starts by immersing ground crude ore in chemicals and water to float out some foreign matter. The Chemico method, using ammonia or acid, dissolves this concentrate in an "autoclave," similar to a huge pressure cooker. The resulting ore-bearing liquid is piped through a filter into another pressure vessel, where terrific heat and force precipitate the pure metal as a fine powder...
...market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps as well. To keep the steam in pressure cooker sales, Keating reheated them with a cooker big enough to sterilize baby's bottles...
...long. "They'll begin to get the blame for unavoidable discomforts, the same as we did," said one. "A lot of people who are expecting them to work miracles will be sadly disappointed. Take that Glasgow woman on the BBC the other night. She planned to buy a cooker, she said, but when the election was announced she decided to wait till the Tories brought the prices down...
...fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...