Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center steering wheel has been replaced by two wheels on either side of the cockpit, allowing the skipper to vary his vantage point. In addition to the two-wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called carbon-fiber. HERITAGE is the first 12-meter designed, constructed, sponsored and skippered by one man. He is Charles Morgan Jr., a Florida yacht-builder and an experienced ocean racer. Though his do-it-yourself venture extends to cutting his own sails, he likes to call his 62-ft. 6-in. sloop the "people...
...uses water colors on unsized muslin to get blurred edges and indefinite forms. In a painting called "Seagulls," blues and greens and brown run over one another to create watery planes around and through two graceful human figures. In "Gross and Untitled," the blobby quality of paint seeping into fiber is used to depict two horrendously obese females in green bikinis...
...humane method may be simply to fire the man, with an honest explanation of the reason why. "Being fired," says Los Angeles Management Consultant Thomas J. Johnston, "is another part of the executive job"-and the ability to bounce back from dismissal is perhaps the sternest test of executive fiber...
Alyosha lend us your sacred know how now. Teach us to make your children forget what has made them rigid. Teach us to make them first limp and fearless, then to raise them again with the new backbone and fiber and flexibility. Let us teach them to die and know death is not the worse there...
...total new systems of housing construction." In fact, almost none of the winners offered technological ideas that are particularly exciting. Instead, Romney conceded last week, the plans display "what is possible under existing technology." Of the 22 systems, six use wood, five metal, two plastic-foam panels, two glass-fiber panels, and seven concrete. Romney pointed out that the selections at least involve some shift away from increasingly scarce and costly wood. For example, Shelley System of Puerto Rico uses prefabricated concrete modules that are stacked in checkerboard fashion...