Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the list is gone through once, the disc jockeys will pull songs from the list as they wish. To get the full impact of the list then, a Friday night all-nighter is necessary. Before you bother to consider such a step, however, bear in mind some of the following items, culled from an advance list graciously supplied by promotion director Harvey Mednick...
...paths have led. The travelers now begin to exude a faint odor of despair: photographers still have no masterpieces to hang with the great paintings, and the parapsychologists have an equivalent problem. They have failed to work a great shift in popular thought, a psychological counterpart to the Darwinian impact, precisely because they are relying on a statistical preponderance of evidence rather than a single staggering tour de force demonstration to make their case. Out and out radicule and rejection breed action, but hesitating half-acceptance makes only for frustration...
...farmer, who takes revenge on the bank that has repossesed his house by shooting up the sign they have placed on his lawn. It is the act of shooting, not its effect, that gives Bonnie and Clyde their stature. Both they and their admirers are curiously blind to the impact of the slaughter they inflict...
...from the 1000° F. temperature generated by air friction (solid uranium will ignite at 338° F.) As the bare depleted uranium comes in contact with steel, an exothermic, or heat-producing, effect occurs when the metals react chemically. This instantaneous heating, combined with the searing heat of impact, raises the temperature of the surrounding steel to such a degree that the flechette literally melts its way through, leaving a hole many times its own diameter...
Demand for Dentists. In a fully participating state like New York, the impact of Medicaid is immense. Under the $6,000 family-income ceiling, about 6,000,000 of New York's 18 million people would probably be eligible; 2,700,000 have already qualified, despite forbidding red tape and Double-Crostic forms; 1,700,000 of these are in New York City-half of those believed to be eligible. The U.S. pays half the medical bills for most patients, the state pays one-fourth and local governments onefourth...