Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tank-killer rocket that was adopted by the German army, was sold to Denmark and Italy, and got Bölkow into antitank and antiaircraft rocket research with France's Nord-Aviation. Bölkow today produces a popular helicopter trainer, two light sports airplanes, a glass-fiber glider, thrust-measuring devices, micropumps and a digital data-processing system. It is also one of three firms working on the third stage of Europe's ten-nation commercial satellite program...
Princeton Senior Michael E. Smith, son of a fiber and burlap importer and no kin to the other Michael Smith, was selected as a Rhodes scholar at Ox ford for the next two years. Smith, like his namesake, had attended Darien public schools. He went on to the Hill School and Princeton, where he was president of his class three years running, and is now chairman of the Undergraduate Council. Smith is majoring in English and was first-string center on Princeton's undefeated football team...
...accessible to probing spacecraft from earth only one month out of every 25-a period referred to by scientists as "the window." All through November the window was open, but the first U.S. attempt to peek inside failed when the Mariner C spacecraft, unable to jettison its 300-lb. fiber-glass protective shield, could not attain the necessary speed...
Pakistan's entire economy is tightly interwoven with jute, which is second only to cotton as the world's most widely used natural plant fiber. Last week Pakistan's vital jute industry was snarled in a strike of nearly 60,000 workers who are demanding higher wages. Some mills were the scenes of clashes, and others resolutely evicted all workers. The mood was different at the mills of one jute maker, who has retained the good will of his striking workers by continuing to provide them with their regular fringe benefits of inexpensive company housing and rice...
...broke up in water; Du Pont found a way to waterproof it, called it Cellophane and revolutionized packaging. Du Font's growing group of scientists followed up with a series of breakthroughs: the first commercial U.S. synthetic rubber, the first nitrogen synthetic fertilizer, and the first synthetic fiber -nylon, which now comes in 450 varieties and rings up some $500 million in yearly sales for the company...