Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea. He has built five planes himself. In 1953 he founded the E.A.A. with a group of like-minded friends. "Aviation is one of the last frontiers of individual thinking," he says, "where a man with a few hand tools, steel tubing, and a bit of fabric can build his own aircraft in his own workshop and then take to the air in his own creation...
...despite St. Aug's well-rounded achievements, says a teacher, "we are aware that our students are not being prepared for the total fabric of life." A Roman Catholic school of 750 boys taught by an interracial faculty of 31 Josephite priests, an order dedicated to Negro mission work, St. Aug's is -to its own distress-segregated. It hopes that some day white boys will be willing to go to school at St. Aug's. In the meantime, says Father Eugene P. McManus, a math teacher: "We are trying to get first-class citizenship in graduate...
...There are those who predict that the struggle for full equality in America will be marked by violence and hate; that it will tear at the fabric of our society. Well, for myself, I cannot claim to see so clearly into that future. I just do not agree. I know that racial feelings flow from many deep and resistant sources in our history, in the pattern of our lives and in the nature of man. But I believe there are other forces, that are stronger because they are armed with truth, which will bring us toward our goal in peace...
Kroll, who opened a fabric shop on Mass. Ave. in late September, will devote all his profits to the establishment of a design workshop. The workshop, which will design industrial models "of everything that goes into the home," will provide "a creative atmosphere" in which former mental patients can be gainfully employed, Kroll said...
...drossiest ore to perfect gold." The alchemists never succeeded in making gold, but Du Font's button-down chemists are doing something nearly as good. By rearranging the molecules of thin air, plain water, grimy coal and crude oil, they are not only transforming and enriching the fabric of daily life but laying the foundations for new industries. Lately they have been so successful that Du Pont, the oldest big name in U.S. business, is entering a new era of change and discovery that has stirred up competitors and delighted Wall Street...