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...costs. With only three lines of cars, A.M.C. is less able to shift assembly lines to a stronger sell (the Ambassador) from a weak one (the American). The company has also been hurt by unsuccessful design. Moreover, running close to the line on finances, A.M.C. is less able to withstand the kind of multimilliondollar styling or engineering mistake that every auto company is susceptible to but that the Big Three manufacturers can easily write...
Durfee's loss may have been the crucial blow for Harvard, since the Crimson needed to accumulate a substantial lend in the higher weights to withstand Cornell's strength in the higher classes. The Durfee loss was doubly painful because New broke a 2-2 tie in the second period by taking. Durfee down when the Harvard wrestler was off guard, apparently thinking the referee had blown his whistle...
...fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...
Though people complain about their faulty memories as often as about the weather, memory is just about the most durable phenomenon in human nature. Once imprinted in the brain, specific memories withstand the most devastating attacks, such as electric shock and mind-deadening drugs. This is so great a mystery that there was a packed house in Berkeley last week as a dozen different breeds of scientists convened at the University of California for a two-day symposium on "Behavior, Brain and Biochemistry...
...Salt Lake City wreck, most of the 43 victims were burned to death. Thus, the CAB recommended that the 727's fuel lines, which run through the craft's belly to the three rear-mounted engines, be relocated to withstand the shock of a crash landing. In, both cases, CAB investigators found evidence that synthetic cabin material such as soundproofing, when exposed to fire and soaked by jet kerosene fuel or hydraulic fluid, may exude deadly gases; survivors of the Salt Lake City crash reported that fumes "seared and burned" their lungs. As a result, the CAB called...