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Tazieff lectures on his esoteric specialty at the University of Brussels, but drops his regular work whenever he gets a chance to confront an active volcano. Protected by fiber-glass armor that can deflect a molten bomb weighing 100 Ibs., he carefully stalks into the craters, sometimes close to the roaring throats, and plants seismographs to measure the heartbeat of lava rising deep under the mountain. He samples gases with little glass tubes poked into hot ash, studies the unstable build-up of fresh cinders. So far, Tazieff has escaped without serious injury...
...company has diversified into chemicals, fiber glass and heating units, but frit still accounts for 45% of its sales. Though enamel has largely disappeared from pots and pans, and stoves are often made of stainless steel nowadays, Ferro has made up for such losses by aggressively seeking out new uses for frit. The material is now used on classroom chalkboards, automobile mufflers and jet-engine afterburners. Ferro also turns out frit-based golf-hole markers and road markers, is developing a fertilizer business in which it mixes frit with zinc, boron and molybdenum. Porcelain enamel "skin" sections are hanging...
...Richard H. Bertram. At 48, Florida's Dick Bertram is the Enzo Ferrari of powerboat racing. Like Ferrari, he sells luxury transportation to the well-heeled: his sleek, fiber-glass cruisers and sport fishermen cost anywhere from $9,000 to $75,000. Like Ferrari, he puts his reputation on the line on the racing circuit. And, like Ferrari, he almost always wins, in smooth water or rough...
...Ragin' Cajun, a 32-ft. diesel whose skipper announced: "This is a work boat, the kind we use to take workers out to the offshore oil rigs. We aim to beat the pants off them gentlemen drivers." But the Bertrams' most dangerous challengers were nine Formula 233s, fiber-glass boats whose own deep-V lines were almost dead ringers for the Bertrams...
JAMES KEARNS-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. An art teacher at the School of Visual Arts shows his versatility in pieces sculpted in bronze, fiber glass and concrete, and in paintings done in oil on canvas and on Masonite. His cast females are pathetically pudgy, his painted figures equally grotesque. "I flatter people verbally, not pictorially," says Kearns. But a fine sense of balance and depth wraps them in redeeming grace. Through April...