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...faithful robot friend, Threepio, is supposed to look vaguely human, somewhat like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. A plaster cast was made of British Actor Anthony Daniels, who was to be the man inside. From that cast Barry constructed a golden figure of plastic, rubber, fiber glass, steel and aluminum. Threepio fairly glistened and shone when he was unveiled on the Tunisian set-but that was part of the trouble. It was so hot inside the robot body that Daniels nearly expired, and the machine's plastic and rubber joints were in danger of melting...
Since the New York Rangers hockey team has scared almost nobody this season, their French Canadian goalie Gilles Gratton hit on a terror tactic of his own. He bought a $300 fiber-glass mask that looks like a snarling lion with flashing fangs. "Im a Leo," Gratton explained. "This mask becomes me." Mixing his menagerie metaphors, Gratton added, "That's no bull. I really feel stronger." Gratton's famous teammate Phil Esposito thinks the bright mask "is terrific. It makes Gratton happier, so he plays better." Indeed, the Rangers won a victory the very first time the goalie...
Drastic problems demand drastic cures. The Greeks' current plan is to remove all the remaining sculpture and install it in a yet unbuilt museum at the base of the Acropolis. The bare patches will be filled with fiber-glass replicas, made by the British Museum-which, thanks to Lord Elgin, already has the better part of the Parthenon's original friezes. As for the stones, the rusty iron clamps and rods will have to be extracted and replaced in what one UNESCO expert calls "a gigantic root-canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism...
...firm's manager proudly assured Schumacher that his factory was as highly automated as any in the world. It has to be, in order to produce a product that could compete in world markets. As a result, it provided almost no local employment. Even worse, the raw material (cotton fiber) had to be imported, because the local product was too short for the machine to spin into top-quality yarn...
...power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without drawing any special political comment. Even more striking, Du Pont raised the price of Dacron staple fiber up to 10%; yet Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro was welcomed to a long conference between Carter, his economic aides and some businessmen at which the participants discussed, among other things, what to do about steel prices...