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...clear the bar at 12 ft. After World War II, during which he managed 10 ft. 6 in. outside a castle in Germany, Frank becomes a balding fixture at all the local meets back home. Competing with a bamboo pole years after everyone else has switched to fiber glass, he achieves his goal at age 45. But the pole snaps and Frank is skewered to death on its splinters...
...wooden affairs to the Ambassador model, which boasts a gold-plated barrel and genuine feathers called flights. Aficionados would not be caught dead without their own favorite brand of dart. The standard board, favored by USDA and a fixture in most English pubs, is made of tightly packed sisal fiber and marked off in 20 pieshaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, and inner and outer bull's-eyes worth 50 and 25 points respectively.* Some pubs, like Washington's Wakefields, have as many as five boards permanently...
Anyone residing in Haiti for any length of time knows that the "macoute" is the fiber bag, often gaily decorated and of various sizes, that was originally carried by the male peasants living in the hills...
...club has just commissioned a $3,000 room divider by Libby Flatus, a leading practitioner. Reports Ernie Austin, who runs a small shop in Manhattan called Macramania: "My customers run from longhairs to squares of all colors, shapes and sizes." A major supplier of macramé material is Pacific Fiber and Rope of Wilmington, Calif. Owner Carl Goldman reports macramé interest is "overwhelming . . . enormous. A year ago, we had maybe zero accounts in macramé. Now we must have at least...
Resisting Fatigue. Another battle is heating up among the companies that supply materials to the tiremakers. For casings, most manufacturers have shifted away from conventional rayon to polyester. They have also adopted fiber glass for belting because of its light weight and great strength. The big beneficiaries have been the producers of fiber glass and polyester-notably Owens Corning and PPG Industries. To compete with them, Du Pont has recently come in with a superstrong synthetic called Fiber B, but at $2 a pound it is much costlier than fiber glass, which goes for 780 a pound...