Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard H. Bertram. At 48, Florida's Dick Bertram is the Enzo Ferrari of powerboat racing. Like Ferrari, he sells luxury transportation to the well-heeled: his sleek, fiber-glass cruisers and sport fishermen cost anywhere from $9,000 to $75,000. Like Ferrari, he puts his reputation on the line on the racing circuit. And, like Ferrari, he almost always wins, in smooth water or rough...
...Ragin' Cajun, a 32-ft. diesel whose skipper announced: "This is a work boat, the kind we use to take workers out to the offshore oil rigs. We aim to beat the pants off them gentlemen drivers." But the Bertrams' most dangerous challengers were nine Formula 233s, fiber-glass boats whose own deep-V lines were almost dead ringers for the Bertrams...
JAMES KEARNS-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. An art teacher at the School of Visual Arts shows his versatility in pieces sculpted in bronze, fiber glass and concrete, and in paintings done in oil on canvas and on Masonite. His cast females are pathetically pudgy, his painted figures equally grotesque. "I flatter people verbally, not pictorially," says Kearns. But a fine sense of balance and depth wraps them in redeeming grace. Through April...
...Mahaney and Don Forte are two consistent 13 ft., 6 in. vaulters, but vaulters need at least a 14-foot effort to score in the fiber glass...
Admiral and Kelvinator started producing refrigerators that are lined with plastic foam instead of the bulkier glass fiber, thus have bigger insides than conventional models. General Electric has brought out "self-cleaning" ovens that dissolve grime by melting it down at temperatures...