Word: durbin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Durbin's goal was the relocation of the sweetspot, the area on the racket head that gives the player maximum hitting control. "Players using conventional rackets often miss the sweetspot located near the base of the racket, causing tennis elbow," he explained...
...Durbin moved the sweetspot to the center of the racket head by removing excess weight, lengthening the vertical strings and adding two extra pounds of tension to them...
...doctor told me to give up tennis and to take up bridge," Princeton professor Enoch Durbin said, recalling his desperate bout with tennis elbow. But quitting proved unbearable for Durbin. Instead, he applied his knowledge of physics and mathematics, acquired during his 28 years as a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, to produce "The Durbin," a tennis racket aerodynamically designed to compensate for mis-hits and thereby guard against tennis elbow...
...upset of eleven-term Republican Congressman Paul Findley in Illinois. Findley had advocated U.S. ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a stand that brought him campaign contributions from pro-Arab groups-but also provoked Jewish organizations to pour money into the campaign of his Democratic challenger, Springfield Attorney Richard Durbin. The race turned, however, not on Middle East policy but on Reagan's budget cuts...