Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bumpers, he discovered, are good only for scratching other cars, seats rip out too easily under impact, and the metal in the front half of cars compresses too easily. Dashboards, he feels, should be moved forward and "delethalized" with padding. Doors should be fitted with safety locks so they will not fly open in crashes. Rear-window shelves should be removed; objects on them have a horrible habit of spewing into passengers' heads during crashes. Power brakes, he suggests, should be operated by hand; the eye-hand reaction is quicker than any foot movement. And safety belts, he thinks...
...wheel and its spokes-all flexible -are shaped like a bowl, with the end of the steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...
...more than 800 were killed and thousands more wounded in a spreading, sporadic rebellion that brought the wrath of Islam close to the shores of Europe. The uprisings threatened to cut off France's vast colonies in equatorial Africa. More than 300 million Moslems were already feeling their impact, from Senegal to the Celebes. In the eye of the storm were 20,000 Americans-airmen and their families stationed at the four Strategic Air Command bomber bases in western Morocco...
Other SI stories made their impact, too. At a party meeting, President Ike Eisenhower recalled the SI story about the atheist who didn't care who won the Notre Dame-S.M.U. game, and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale began one of his Sunday sermons: "There is a new magazine, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, that has in this week's issue a story on the use of prayer...
...mind. As of the moment, almost no one places Levine among the "masters" of modern art. But at 40, Levine is not afraid to paint pictures that demand mastery; he has brilliance, seriousness and a sense of his own time which may have an even greater impact on museumgoers of the future...