Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bigger things now beckon. "Boats! Yachts!" says Macqueen enthusiastically. "There's no difference, really, between knitting a boat and knitting a bra cup. The boat is about the same shape, just bigger that's all." He is hard at work on a machine to knit glass-fiber yarn into streamlined boat hulls up to 40 ft. long. "You put the garment into a mold," says Macqueen, "and plasticize it. Hey, presto! You have a yacht...
...fiber bundles or Spanish verb endings in the fourteenth century are your greatest joy in life, who is to say that you should spend your time on merely temporal activities? Out of respect, we will not contend with such as you (though we wonder how you know fiber bundles or Spanish verbs are the greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand...
...Winnaker does not seem very worried about the future. Nearly half of Hoechst's sales come from products developed by the company's scientists within the past ten years (among them: Rastinon, the first oral insulin for diabetics; Segontin, a drug for circulatory disturbances; Trevira, a polyester fiber for garments). Winnaker intends to keep up the flow. Hoechst's new research facility is so designed that next to each two-man experimental laboratory is another lab in which a development team will work at finding commercial applications for whatever discoveries the researchers may make...
...pole vault, Cornelius Warmerdam. went on to jump 15 ft. 71 in. and set a record that stood for 15 years. The first man to clear 16 ft. was John Uelses. He did it in 1962, but today he is just one of the gang. Outfitted with twangy new fiber glass poles, skivvy-suited acrobats are soaring to unexplored heights almost every week. In Toronto, a West Virginia public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland. Ore., a wiry U.C.L.A. senior named Yang Chuan...
Last May, Yang traded his old-fashioned aluminum vaulting pole in for a more flexible fiber glass model. "I had to learn to wait, wait for that pole to snap." But Yang slowly got the hang. "On the U.C.L.A. practice field,'' he recalls, "we had to put blocks under the uprights to get them up to 16 ft. Every time I hit the crossbar, one upright would fall over and hit me on the head...