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Sport may be mostly a matter of muscle, but a little science sometimes goes a long way. A 17-ft. pole vault is common enough today, but was utterly inconceivable before the invention of the fiber-glass jumping pole. The latest sport to feel the impact of technology is tennis, in which almost any change is a change for the better...
swordfish, practically a baby, took umbrage at the 16-ton research submarine Alvin at a depth of 2,000 ft., rammed its sword through the fiber-glass outer shell, causing such trouble that the submarine was forced to surface...
...almost everything else aboard during the January holocaust, the Gemini space suits worn by the astronauts burned, as interior temperatures rose to 1,500° F. To withstand such heat, the nylon outer covering of the Apollo suit has been replaced by Beta cloth-an advanced form of glass fiber produced by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Backing up the new fabric are 14 layers of fire-resistant material. Even if they were caught in an on-board inferno, the Apollo astronauts would have several minutes of protection while wearing the new suit. Big gest problem posed by the new fiber...
...increased by 6% a year v. only 3% for other workers. Total farm production, the Agriculture Department estimated last week, will set a new record this year (one result being lower grain prices on the nation's commodities market). With the average farm laborer producing enough food and fiber for 39 people, the American farmer not only overfeeds and overclothes the U.S. but holds out the vision that expanding technology can eliminate the threat of famine in underdeveloped lands as well...
...What is freedom in the last analysis," he says to himself, "other than the state of being totally, instead of only partially, subject to the tyranny of chance?" The photographer becomes Bowles's modern antihero, participating in "an invisible spectacle whose painful logic he followed with the entire fiber of his being, without, however, once being given a clear vision of what agonizing destinies were at stake...