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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...
...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...
...Durbin reduces the chances of tennis elbow by reducing the vibrations traveling up the arm as the racket meets the ball," he said, adding that the racket is more efficient than conventional rackets and improves control because players can find the sweetspot more easily. Durbin hopes to prevent mis-hits, a major cause and aggravator of his own ailment, tennis elbow...
...been personally welcomed home by the President of the United States, though citizens of the District of Columbia were slightly excited. The city staged a parade that was well attended despite a downpour (500,000 people, double the number greeting the hostages from Iran). The bands had to elbow their way along Constitution Avenue in single file. Good news does not pass this way too often...
Kohl, on the other hand, is anxious to keep Genscher and the F.D.P. as a counterweight to Strauss, who was defeated handily in the 1980 elections by Schmidt. Kohl knows that governing with the formidable Bavarian at his elbow would be like a dachshund's trying to control a rogue elephant. In addition, Kohl feels that the Christian Democrats need to forge a strong alliance with the F.D.P. if they hope to remain in power for more than one term. Kohl is reported to believe that the conservatives in West Germany today do not hold a "natural" majority, since...