Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorboats, the answer to this question was to be found last week in boatyards in Michigan and Florida. There, hidden under tarpaulins, lay the sleek 2j-H. aluminum cabin cruisers that Chris-Craft plans to put on the market next month, as well as prototypes of a racy fiber-glass runabout that the company may include in its 1962 line...
...free hand by the Shields brothers. Coll himself took a pencil to Chris-Craft's blueprints. A mechanical engineer with a flair for design, he slimmed the bulging bow line, streamlined the superstructure to give the boats a racier silhouette. To please lady sailors, he installed molded fiber-glass vanities and washbowls in the heads, put pile carpets in the cabins, and picture windows in the galleys. As a result of the new look, Chris-Craft is once again, according to Coll, "at least two years in front of its competitors-and I intend to keep it there...
...Brazil exports $90 million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...
...Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, looking for all the world like a split-bearded king, who later in the day gave the best reply to Bryant's question. "There is a moral fiber that is not there today in TV," he said. "Heads of networks are individually decent, sensible and intelligent. But they pursue the wrong for the benefit of profit. Television doesn't represent ourselves to ourselves. It should not dedicate itself to the least common denominator. Every country which did that collapsed. That's my quibble with Communism. It aims everything at the least common denominator...
...boss of the U.S. Office of Education had barely been sworn in last week when he ventured an opinion about U.S. schools. "Soft," "flabby," "lax," "easy," exclaimed Commissioner Sterling M. McMurrin, 47. "We have much less knowledge, much less creativity, much less moral fiber than we would have had if our educational process had been more rigorous." McMurrin set his goal as "quality and rigor in teaching"-strong talk for the Office of Education, which for most of its 94 years has been a tame source of statistics rather than of standards...