Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...materials research, communications, and aeronautics and astronautics. In the life sciences center, for" example, electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, medical men, biophysicists, biochemists, microbiologists and electron-microscope experts all pool their skills. The life sciences center is a prime customer for Chilean fishermen, who ship to Cambridge the nerve fibers of a giant squid found off Chile's coast. The size of the fibers makes them relatively easy to work with, and M.I.T.'s life scientists, combining their efforts, have become more or less familiar with most of the chemical molecules that make the fiber work. Their ultimate...
...Israel's Sabra sports car with a fiber glass body, a British Ford Consul engine. Top speed: 100 m.p.h. Price...
Floating Doughnut. A 14-ft.-diameter, circular fiber-glass motorboat is being offered for sale in Japan by Yamaha Motor Co. Designed for leisurely cruising with the calm sensation of a water lily, or as a roomy fishing boat or diving platform, it is driven by an outboard motor installed through a hole in the center. Price in Japan...
...American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman's body. Nothing more happens. The insulated boom...
...know how to use them, while I have best use of the scant opportunities life has meagerly provided. For example, Senator Kennedy has easily gotten a brain trust. I have worked to get one too. My Harvard professors like Senator Kennedy's provide honest advice, principle, consistency, and moral fiber for my campaign, but unlike Senator Kennedy I don't let these things...