Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concern by the white middle class with what it thinks is decay of the moral fiber of America will remain an important factor in national elections, James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government, maintained last night...
...plucked banty rooster!" "Forgive Them." In Northern New Jersey, Johnson proclaimed that the American people "are weary of those who preach that America is failing in the world and faltering at home. The people are tired of being told that their character is in question, that their moral fiber is riddled with rot and decay. The American people want leadership which believes in them, not leadership which berates them...
Died. Games Slayter, 67, inventor of Fiberglas; of a heart attack; in Columbus. A recently retired vice president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Slayter developed a straw-thick glass fiber for air filters in 1931, after seven more years of research came up with the fine, flexible "glass wool" now used for everything from draperies to boat hulls, winning his company more than 130 lucrative patents...
...Giant Step. In theory, stretch fabrics have been around since 1947, when the discovery of vertically stretchable textured yarn hit the slopes, making ski pants a stylish as well as a sturdy business. Chemical processes like slack mercerizing (by which the fabric, not the raw fiber, is made resilient after it is woven) left cottons and wools horizontally stretchable, did wonders for men's oxford shirts. Spandex, a wholly elastic fiber produced by Du Pont in 1958, revitalized bathing suits, hosiery and undergarments. But the big breakthrough came only last spring, when Du Pont went one giant step farther...
...home and the future of an entire industry. Millions of cans no longer require keys or openers; they flip, zip, pop or peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses, now dispenses everything from cake icing to lotion for poison...