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...small chamber near the Lincoln Bedroom), grandson of Woodrow Wilson, onetime secretary to F.D.R.'s political chief James Farley and friend or acquaintance of every President since then. The lanky Sayre has some of the Wilson profile and a lot of the inner fiber: he denounced McCarthyism, stood with the civil rights marchers, and marched...
Oceaneering has grown largely because of technological innovations that enable its divers to descend as far as 1,000 ft.-a depth that was rarely attempted a few years ago. It has developed, among other items, a complex fiber glass "rat hat" that warms the helium-oxygen mixture that divers must breathe at the very cold depths below 200 ft. to avoid the disabling nitrogen narcosis commonly known as "rapture of the deep." The $2,500 hat has been successfully tested at 1,600 ft.; Oceaneering refuses to sell it to anyone-even the U.S. Navy, which has chastised...
...evening's representative of the muse of irony, Gore Vidal. When Elizabeth Taylor, almost the last survivor of the studio star system for which the Oscar ceremony had been created, appeared on the walkway, it was like the arrival of a galleon in a weekend fleet of fiber-glass runabouts...
Glacé Blondes. The Grand Prix circuit is the class act in racing. Unlike stock-car drivers, Grand Prix racers are rich sybarites who zip through the industrialized world in futuristic "Formula I" nodules of fiber glass. Theirs is a life of death and daring where excess baggage means two cars and a couple of glacé blondes. "This is the only gentlemen's sport left," observed a Caracas businessman. "Polo and tennis are such a bore...
...indeed, encourage an increase "by a factor of thousands" in the amount of information flowing in and out of the average home as people use their phone lines more and more to gain access to everything from their checking accounts to computers and consumer services. A single glass fiber can now be made to carry up to 672 one-way conversations simultaneously. This means that eight fibers, a bundle no thicker than a pencil lead, could do the job now being done by a 3-in. telephone cable...