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...made by a Japanese patented process originally devised for doormats. The plastic is poured into a square mold with 800 indentations per square inch. When the drying plastic is pulled away, the nubs stick, and stretch into "blades" of grass. Then the squares are laid on an asphalt court, just as a homeowner might lay tile on a kitchen floor. The result is a durable and resilient surface, which is divot-proof, affords better footing and less leg fatigue and keeps both balls and players free from grass stains...
...court at about half-price largely because of Director of Development Stowell Mears, who wangled a grant from the Ford Foundation's Educational Facilities Laboratories. But estimates are that the whole thing could be duplicated for about $25,000-$10,000 for the bubble, $4,500 for the asphalt base, $10,000 for the vinyl grass. In comparison, a real grass court, even without the bubble, costs about $25,000 to construct and requires the additional expense of upkeep and maintenance. The Forman court, if damaged or worn bare, can be replaced easily square by square. The new surface...
Dead: 422. Injured: more than 20,000. Cause: driving on those happy, blood-soaked holidays, Christmas and New Year's. As the last twisted wreck was towed away, the last bits of glass and gore rinsed off the asphalt, lawyers and insurance companies began the dreary job of figuring up the price tag on destruction. Determining who pays how much for auto accidents is far and away the biggest legal business in the U.S. today...
...have a suspicious eye out for innocent fakery or artless burble, but will find neither. All the grandeurs and miseries of life between nine and 15 are experienced by Caroline's heroine-Antonia Rutherford ("Buddersmud" to her coevals). All the savagery of child civilization boils about the muddy asphalt and precipitous stone stairs of the London primary school. Derision and clownish aggression is the prechivalric code between the nonsexes. There are friendships of Byronic intensity and power alliances of Renaissance intricacy. The tormented teaching staff is examined through a child's merciless eye for dandruff, horse teeth, injustice...
Died. George Eli Whitney, 101, Yankee tinkerer, inventor (in 1896) of the two-cylinder auto steam engine that powered the first Locomobile, a grandnephew of the inventor of the cotton gin, who dreamed up more than 150 gizmos, including a garage-door closer and a portable asphalt brick machine; in Manchester...