Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operates like a huge, carpeted Escalator without steps. An upward-moving belt covered with a rug of white Caprolan fiber makes a ski area approximately 20 ft. by 55 ft. Wearing 30-in. "shortee" skis, the skier pushes off from the top of the platform, makes headway against the moving belt, which literally pulls the rug out from under him at speeds that can vary to simulate different slopes and snow conditions. The pile in the rug is thick enough to act something like snow, permitting the skier to execute all the standard turns...
...orthodox, there was some relief in the discovery that many boatmakers are still building hulls of wood, although fiber glass and aluminum are still gaining. Top eye-catchers in the show...
...Biggest sailboat in the show is Pearson's fiber-glass sloop, the Alberg 35. It has a 30-h.p. auxiliary engine, a loft. beam, draws 5 ft. Price...
...lawyer suing to rescind Bertrand Russell's teaching appointment in New York described Russell's writings as lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, untruthful, and bereft of moral fiber." The lawyer won his case...
Last week an enterprising young man named Barry Stuart, of Kalamazoo. Mich., was showing off the pilot model of a brand-new electric family car. Designed to sell for around $1,600, the Stuart is a boxy but commodious fiber-glass creation driven by a 4-h.p. motor, will hold two adults, two kids, and lots of groceries. It will go 40 miles at a safe-and-sane 35 m.p.h. on its small boat-trailer-size wheels, and its eight 6-volt batteries may be recharged overnight simply by plugging the whole thing into the garage socket. The cost...