Word: fiber
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...Seagren could remember to flick the pole back with his thumb at the moment of release-as does Competitor John Fennel. "But that's instinctive with me," admits Pennel. "I just do it automatically. Bob hasn't been vaulting as long as I have." The fiber-glass pole apparently is not a factor in Seagren's troubles, but one problem may be the stickum with which Bob, like most vaulters, coats his hands to help him grip the pole better on his approach. Still, Seagren insists that the main issue is Section 20(e) itself, which seems...
Everybody Has One. Specialty cars date back to the early 1950s when Ford introduced the Thunderbird and the Mark II Lincoln Continental, and Chevrolet came out with its fiber glass fendered Corvette. Then in 1963, Buick introduced its Riviera. The market really began rolling two years ago when Ford brought out the hot, bright, popularly priced Mustang. Every other auto division in Detroit rushed to produce something like it. Dodge pushed the Charger, Oldsmobile the Toronado, Cadillac the elegant Eldorado, and American Motors Corp. the Marlin. Chrysler-Plymouth cut a year off the development time of the Barracuda in order...
Much of that business went to France, which has become one of Bulgaria's biggest trade partners in the West. French companies also plan to build a synthetic fiber plant, a cosmetic factory, and an auto-tire factory in Bulgaria; and last month Renault signed a $50 million deal for an auto plant 100 miles east of Sofia. Last April, after Bulgaria and France signed a new agreement that will triple trade between the two countries, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville visited Sofia and invited Zhivkov to visit France. Zhivkov was happy to oblige...
...boats chosen for last week's championship on Long Island Sound were Shields class,* stock 30-ft. fiber glass sloops that sell for $8,000 each and are as alike as a school of anchovies. After the first two days, Boston's John J. ("Don") McNamara, 34, and Darien, Conn.'s William Cox, 53, were so far over the horizon that no one could catch them. McNamara, a bronze medal winner in the 5.5-meter class at the 1964 Olympics, was ahead with 371 points (1, 1, 3, 2, 1). Barely 2½ points behind...
...face of depressing surroundings, Mama Levenson had one surefire blunderbuss in her arsenal. She fought dirt because of its corrupting influence not only on floors and walls ("Her fight against dirt was based on the premise that circumstances make poor, but people make dirt") but on human moral fiber as well. Mama and Papa both believed, furthermore, that children should be disciplined with whatever was handy-shaving strops, wooden ladles, rolled-up newspapers-instead of psychology. Writes Levenson: "I didn't know that fathers were not supposed to hit kids if they were bad. Most fathers hit kids-anybody...