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...Modern industrial design has ceased its T-square solemnity and turned capricious. A crash helmet by Bell-Toptex Inc.'s Frank Heacox and Roy Richter becomes a more modern exoskull, whose transparent visor frees, yet protects, nose, eyes and jaw. A single-finned surfboard, made of fiber-glassed balsa, is-above and below its shallow water line-both a platform and a watery missile. A laminated archer's bow, by Bill Stewart of Bear Archery Co., is the winglike translation of the human biceps, and thus its 35-lb. pull ally...
...Belgium's big Electrorail holding company. The baron, whose family helped exploit the Congo for Belgium and promoted the Paris Metro system, is a grand-scale investor and industrialist with holdings in utilities, chemicals and electrical equipment. Last year he bought 20% of Mexico's Cesar Balsa hotel-and-construction group, whose properties include Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Already the baron has bought up 20% of Schneider's stock. But Liliane vows to keep Schneider management French; she has about 5% of the stock, and has been appointed to lifetime tenure as manager. Says...
...private passion of a few bronzed daredevils. But in the past few years, surfing has become something like a way of life for thousands of devotees all along the Southern California coast. Every weekend an estimated 100,000 surfers paddle into the briny on 7-ft. to 12-ft. balsa or polyurethane boards, struggle upright into a precarious balance with nature, and try to catch the big breakers coming...
Were they thinking of balsa or mahogany -or did you mean "timbre...
...temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International Methane Ltd. The solution Conch found was a double-hulled ocean tanker equipped with aluminum storage tanks insulated with balsa wood and encased in steel. Even with this kind of insulation, some methane did vaporize-just about enough, the engineers thriftily noted, to fuel the ship's boilers...