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...technology. Because they retain their great strength even when heated to high temperatures, they have countless uses in such space-age products as Gemini capsules and jet engines. They would have countless other applications were it not for one exasperating characteristic: they cannot be used for moving parts that rub against other hunks of titanium or stainless steel. When they are, the pieces simply stick together...
Every oil known to science has failed. As soon as the metals rub themselves clean, molecules begin moving in both directions across the interface, the area of contact between the two metals. The "seizure" that results is as effective as a weld. Even machining is difficult. When a steel cutting tool is used on stainless steel or titanium, it sticks to the piece it is shaping and cuts out rough chunks instead of smooth chips...
...Nervous Rub. The entire House of Commons cheered Wilson's news, and Tory Opposition Leader Ted Heath even rose to welcome him "warmly" after his "long and arduous mission." But the euphoria did not last long. Two days later, the British Prime Minister was back in Commons, grey, grim, and rubbing his cheek nervously with the signet ring on his left hand, to report that "it is now clear that there is no prospect of agreement...
...Image Rub-Off. In search of what they call "image rub-off," dealers lend cars for local parades, but Detroit usually steps in when the occasion or the person is big enough. Miss America rides in an Oldsmobile, Miss Teen-Age America in a Mercury and Miss Junior Miss in a Chevrolet, all donated by the companies. During their visit to the U.S. in November, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon will have the free use of a Chrysler Imperial. For the Pope's recent journey to New York City, Ford supplied a custom-built bubbletop and 14 other Lincolns...
...hard life were redressed at the yardarm or, if the captain felt merciful, by the cat. One apparently incorrigible tar was flogged eight times in ten months. Sentences of 1,000 lashes were common. The man who survived his flogging got salt-the Royal Navy's antiseptic-to rub on his ribboned back...