Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week when the rangy truck driver from Porterville, Calif, set to work. Wearing only a pair of white toreador pants and a pair of suede chukka boots, Dan Lamore, 31, was gaudy enough. But his bow was the real eye stopper: a 54-in. monster made of fiber glass and maple, which required a force of 250 Ibs. to be shot at full power...
...Cares? Along with loss of incentive went gross mismanagement by party activists in the communes. Dutifully heeding Peking's clamorous cries for concentration on grain and on backyard steel production (since largely abandoned), commune bosses neglected vegetables, cloth and fiber crops. The result was a severe crimp in Red China's once booming export drive (TIME, Aug. 3), and a vegetable shortage so severe that last month China's cities were informed that henceforth they would have to grow all their own food except grain (TIME, July...
With this new whir of activity, the vast emptiness of the Yukon and Northwest Territories is changing fast. Eskimos whose fathers hunted seals and lived in igloos now drive bulldozers and travel by outboard-powered glass-fiber canoe. One Eskimo, who needed a new hair sight for his rifle, calmly dismantled his $100 wristwatch for a piece of the mainspring. In Inuvik, Indian youths with ducktail haircuts and jeans crouch over a pool table, while their girl friends in ribboned pony tails and candy-striped toreador pants play A Teenager in Love on the jukebox...
Contour Couch. Inside the nose cone, Monkey Able was dressed in a space suit and strapped to a carefully shaped contour couch of fiber-glass plastic. She wore gauze and charcoal diapers for daintiness. Since the g-forces of launching are much less (15 g) than those of hitting the atmosphere (38 g). she was suspended face down so that the bed would support her when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change...
...buyer seeking the ultimate in economy, Britain's York Noble Industries Ltd. had a new, fiber-glass-bodied Nobel 200, a tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h. Lowest-priced auto at the show, the Nobel will sell for $998 complete, or $895 in a do-it-yourself, semi-knocked-down kit assembled in 100 man hours...