Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story fiber-glass statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the Salvation Gardens! Thrill to gladiator fights in the Colosseum! Climb the Tower of Babel! Disappear into the belly of Jonah's Whale! Pet the animals on Noah's Ark! Ride a slave barge across the Sea of Galilee! Visit Heaven and Hell! All this and more for only $6 a head...
...N.C.A.A. and world pole-vaulting records. Still, nothing that he had ever done before came close to equaling his record-breaking leap in El Paso. He gives at least partial credit for that effort to a new pole he used that day, which was developed by Herbert Jenks, a fiber-glass expert from Carson City, Nev. Seagren's pole weighs only 6 Ibs. instead of the standard 61 Ibs. and has a thinner than usual cross section, which allows for a better grip. That enabled Seagren to hold the pole higher and sprint faster on his takeoff. With...
...been a reshuffling of priorities around New Haven during the last half century. In the old days, for God's sake, no man ever had to sit down and figure out why there was a rivalry between Harvard and Yale. He felt it, right in his gut, in every fiber of his being. It was an instinctive thing...
...modular sofas as Mario Bellini's "Chameleon" cushion system (see color page), it is apparent that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...
Buying Spree. The U.S. needs to catch up with other non-Communist nations, which find the Soviet Union an expanding and often profitable market. Hoping to modernize outmoded industries, the Russians have bought scores of modern plants and equipment abroad: synthetic-fiber factories from Britain, chemical factories from Japan, and $250 million in equipment from Italy's Fiat for an auto plant, which is now turning out nearly 1,000 cars a day. West Germany last year sold $460 million worth of goods to the Soviets, followed by Japan ($375 million) and Italy and France (each nearly $300 million...