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...rest of the ground rules were standard: each player would begin with a given number of points, shoot at a fiber board marked off in 20 pie-shaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, then subtract the points he scored in each three-dart round; each game had to be won on a double (zinging a dart into the tiny outer double ring) worth the exact number of points remaining. First to reach zero would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown at Trafalgar | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Plunging directly into the massive dark thunderheads high above northeastern Colorado, the World War II-vintage B-26 released its payload: a swarm of tiny, aluminum-coated strands of fiber glass. The strange-and dangerous-flight was part of science's latest attempt to tame one of nature's most spectacular and damaging phenomena: lightning storms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lightning Tamers | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Visit Heaven and Hell! | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Duel at 19 Ft. | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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