Word: cementation
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That brings up the second important reason why basketball at Harvard has something of a "new look" this season--Leo Scully. As they used to say back in New Jersey, where kids used to learn basketball early in life because it's hard to play baseball or football on cement...
...fashioned on delicately tinted, skin-colored fabric or fiber-glass base, and are carefully matched in color and texture to the customer's remaining locks. The whole thing is generally affixed to the scalp by a couple of pieces of centrally stationed tape plus a smattering of adhesive cement around the edges. The new hairpieces are so firmly anchored that they can be worn in the shower and even to bed, although neither practice is recommended. "But then I wouldn't sleep in a $300 suit either," noted one salesman...
...with the aid of a U.S. Government loan, the brothers began to build a cement plant to supply Puerto Rico's wartime needs. German U-boats sank all five ships sent from the U.S. with machinery for the plant, but the Ferrés determinedly scrounged up old motors around the island and cut out the big gears they needed in their own ironworks. In the end, the plant turned out the cement used to build Puerto Rico's big Roosevelt Roads naval base...
...Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin decided to sell off four manufacturing plants started by the local government in a fit of socialist experimentation, the Ferrés again turned adversity to advantage. Unlike other bidders, who were interested only in the government's moneymaking cement plant, the Ferrés agreed to buy unprofitable clay, glass and paper plants as well. By bringing in outside experts and training local workers in modern techniques, the Ferrés had all the plants in the black within a year. Today, wages in the Ferré plants...
...Star in Their Eyes. Though they have ridden high on Puerto Rico's boom, the Ferrés' interests are not confined to the island-or just to business. In 1954 they bought one of their former customers, Florida's Maule Industries, whose cement products have gone into most of the Miami Beach hotels. In their home town of Ponce, the brothers have put up $1,000,000 for a new university. And Luis Ferré, a passionate art collector, recently engaged Architect Edward D. Stone to design a new home for Puerto Rico's solitary...