Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just about everything-guards, doctors, books, toilets. Morning visitors can see the basins of slimy water in which the prisoners wash first themselves and then their forks, knives and plates. The floors of their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after...
...everybody in the Maldives shares the government's horror at the peaceful invasion, though the islands' simple economy of coir (coconut fiber) and dried fish was totally disrupted by the British arrival. (Also disrupted was the domestic economy of Ceylonese housewives who regard Maldivian fish as an indispensable ingredient of curry, are now limited to a monthly ration of eight ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male...
...about saving face in the best Japanese tradition. Photographer Tsuchiya agreed to apologize publicly and destroy all his negatives. The two novices pictured most revealingly agreed to expulsion-and then reinstatement. Head Priest Mumon Yamada blamed it all on an influx of university-trained novices who lack moral fiber. Lamented Yamada: It was not so in the old days, when novices were poor boys without education or appetite for soft living...
...Philippines in 1938 by way of China, managed to escape a World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered as a trader, also obtained a bankroll from Philippine and Italian businessmen, which he brought to Florida in 1950 to start a project growing flaxlike ramie fiber. He then moved to Manhattan and with a partner opened McGrath Securities, a firm that often floated stock in his new companies...
Bill Tripp set to work on the fiberglass design in 1956 for a Connecticut lawyer named Frederick Lorenzen, who was dissatisfied with wooden boats ("I don't like them. They leak"). Many small boats have been built of fiber glass, but few of ocean-racing size. At the Beetle Boat Co. in East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport...