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Electronics companies are making printed circuits out of Teflon, which can be sliced to one two-thousandths of an inch. Teflon is used in barbecue gloves that will not scorch, in missile nose cones and in fireproof suits. Ovens and muffin tins are coated with Teflon, and a coating of Teflon is applied to some electric irons to make them slide more easily across cloth. Auto bearings, bushings and ball joints are now being made of Teflon, and engineers look for the day when they can use it to eliminate car lubrication. Surgeons are using Teflon tubing successfully to replace...
...their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
...divine pattern ... If not this, it can only be materialistic drift. If there be a creative hand behind this universe, there must be a creative hand in its unfoldment and direction. Everything in it -sun, moon, stars, planets, their distances, the calibration so that people will neither freeze nor scorch to death, the procession of the seasons, man's subsistence-all rise to testify to the amazing adjustments in the universe to preserve life. And surely the creative force would not provide it all in such meticulous detail and then ignore its ultimate destiny...
...just a few points away from winning a world championship in the sport he loved-Grand Prix auto racing, the swift and dangerous pastime that binds its practitioners to a peculiar, almost chivalric code. With goggles and helmets for armor, with throaty, low-slung cars for mounts, they scorch the race courses of Europe and the Americas in dedicated pursuit of their elusive Holy Grail-which is always one more victory. Death is always at hand. "In every race," said Von Trips, "we are close to the limit. We must be, if we want...
...World War II service histories. Morison's insistence that it be "unofficial" (though all royalties go to the Navy) gives him room to light the text with judgments-as of Halsey's and Kinkaid's faulty assumptions in the battle for Leyte Gulf-that at times scorch the gold braid off commanding sleeves...