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They are being made of almost anything and everything-polyester fiber glass, alloy aluminum, weatherproofed cardboard, plastic, bamboo. More than 50 companies have taken out licenses to make them in the U.S. alone. The small domes are light enough to be lifted by helicopter, and they practically build themselves. Non-English-speaking Eskimos can put them together in a matter of hours out of color-coded components. The day his company began erecting a geodesic auditorium in Hawaii, Henry J. Kaiser hopped a plane from San Francisco to see the work in progress, but it was finished by the time...
Every other finalist at last week's championships used a "gun"-a long, heavy (up to 40 Ibs.) board designed for stability in big waves like Makaha's. Cabell preferred a shorter, lighter (25 Ibs.) foam-and-fiber-glass "natural," designed for easy maneuverability and ordinarily used in smaller waves. Each surfer got seven tries. Cabell rode four of his waves almost half a mile clear in to the beach, catching each looming 25-footer off Makaha's northwestern tip, standing up for 300 yds., dropping prone as it dissolved to foam crossing a reef, then rising...
...Jones is more than a composite of tricks. It is skillfully acted, particularly by Finney. Appearing in nearly every scene, he laughs and romps with engaging abandon, setting the tone for everyone else in the film. Finney acts with every fiber of his face, every muscle of his body: viewers who have watched him waltz and stumble into the marshes to get a flower for sophie are not likely to forget his performance...
...with this inner strength, tenaciously rooted in Christian concepts, that King has made himself the unchallenged voice of the Negro people-and the disquieting conscience of the whites. That voice in turn has infused the Negroes themselves with the fiber that gives their revolution its true stature. In Los Angeles recently, King finished a talk by saying: "I say good night to you by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher, who said, 'We ain't what we ought to be and we ain't what we want...
Chief villain is the rich wall-to-wall carpeting, without which no new office is self-respecting. The deeper the pile, the worse the shock-particularly if the material has a high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view...