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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Imitation of Birds | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Millard Fillmore, | Title: The Great Debate | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

...bite out of the surplus" by a target date four years hence. "No more exciting challenge will confront the next President and his Administration than that of making a national asset, rather than a liability, out of our nation's ability to produce more food and fiber than any other people on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Operation Consume | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Many a new product spawns other new products as it jolts older competitors into fresh efforts to improve their lines. When the textile industry threatened to turn to the new synthetic fibers, the cottonmakers developed resin treatments to make cotton wash-and-wear. Polypropylene, one of the newest and cheapest of the petroleum plastics, is now putting the pressure on more expensive cellophane. Produced as a fiber, it promises to make the best no-ironing blend of cloth. Laverne's "invisible" chairs are made of the plastic, make any room look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Prometheus Unbound | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...around this problem, the Field mill starts with used slick, magazine-type paper, which is not only cheaper than used newsprint in the Chicago area but has a 30% fiber content compared with newsprint's 15%-20% and holds up better in the chemical dissolution process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eradicating the Ink | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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