Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month in Compton, Calif., he still insisted that there must be better vaulters around. "If I can go 16 ft. 8 in. doing everything wrong," he said, "there's bound to be somebody else who can go 17 ft. 6 in. It's all in the fiber-glass pole." Like most top vaulters of the fiberglass pole era, Sternberg was as much a gymnast as a trackman. He worked out regularly on a trampoline to improve his balance and body control, was rated one of the ten best trampoline men in the country. One day last week...
...roughest takeover battle in British history, the ancient and slightly moribund textile-making firm of Courtaulds, Ltd. barely held off giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. last year by promising to mend its ways. The world's second biggest synthetic fiber manufacturer (after Du Pont), Courtaulds pledged an end to the secretive, damn-the-investor attitude prevailing since the firm was founded 147 years ago by Huguenot refugees named Courtauld. It also predicted that fiscal 1963 would bring a 30% rise in pre-tax earnings to $65 million...
...inside towering U.S. tariff barriers, West Germany's Minox has started to assemble its cameras on Long Island, and Italy's Montecatini chemical complex has put $20 million into a plant in West Virginia to produce its new Merkalon synthetic fiber. (The U.S. Government welcomes Montecatini's settling in West Virginia, and the decision of Japan's Sekisui Chemical Co. to build a factory to make polystyrene foam in Hazelton. Pa., because they bring jobs to areas of chronic unemployment.) The French aluminum producer Pechiney bought control of New York's Howe Sound to gain...
...last week, "we are suffering from a misery of choice." Paperboard competes with plastics, steel with aluminum, thin tin with glass. The latest battle shaping up is between the new composition cans (commonly paperboard covered with foil) and traditional metal cans, which were already warring with glass. Fiber-foil cans cost 15% less than tin-plate cans, are lighter and usually can be opened with less effort. They have already moved into the motor oil can market once dominated by tin plate, and their makers confidently plan to use them for coffee, paint, beer and soft drinks...
...both in trouble. Intense competition had brought a worldwide drop in chemical prices. Britain and the Common Market could not make up their minds about each other. And, acting more tigerish than usual, I.C.I, had pawed hungrily at another company and been seriously scratched itself. To widen its synthetic fiber business. I.C.I, bought heavily into smaller Courtaulds. Ltd. and touched off the biggest proxy fight in British history (TIME, March 23. 1962). Able to secure only 38.5% of Courtaulds stock, I.C.I. not only lost the battle but was generally criticized for grasping, un-British conduct. For Chambers the outcome...