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Eddy returned home recently and he still has no ready answer to the question. Seven years ago, the young bachelor, then 31, spent $18,000 for a new fiber glass Seawind sailboat that is advertised by the Allied Boat Co. of Catskill, N.Y., as capable of "crossing an ocean if you will." After a year of preparation, Eddy decided he was ready to do just that. So he set sail in the wake of Joshua Slocum, the retired trading-ship captain who took off from Boston in a 37-ft. converted oyster boat back in 1895 and returned three years...
...matters right, but they managed to miss few tea breaks, beer breaks or whisky breaks. Then there was the matter of pilferage. One electrician was charged with stealing a startling list of articles: 30 yards of carpeting, two chests of drawers, five curtains, 180 ft. of glass fiber, five lampshades and a toilet seat...
...Penn Central Metroliners, built by Philadelphia's Budd Co., can travel up to 160 m.p.h., but will be held to something under 120 m.p.h. Reasons: much slower conventional trains will be ahead of them on the tracks and the roadbeds cannot handle such great speeds. The steel-and-fiber-glass Metroliner units, self-propelled by four 640-h.p. electric motors, can be combined in any number to make a train without an "engine." So far, at least six of them have been accepted by the Penn Central. Another 44 Metroliner cars are scheduled to be put into service later...
...dose either killed or sickened the sheep, and too little failed to produce the desired effect. But the researchers soon discov ered that a dose of about nine milligrams for every pound of the sheep's body weight produced just the right result. The drug affected the wool fiber only where it is produced, in follicles below the surface of the skin, and acted for about 24 hours before being dissipated by the body. During this period, cell growth was retarded, producing thinner than normal segments on each fiber before normal growth resumed. Six or seven days later, when...
...Things are still well made," insists Keith Sonnier, "but the artists are sneakier about it." Sometimes indeed they are so sneaky that their craftsmanship eludes the viewer altogether. Bruce Nauman, 26, at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last February, showed off crude fiber glass forms, limp latex-and-cloth sculptures, and a stuttering neon sign that proclaimed "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." Minimalist Morris blossomed forth at a Castelli spring show with billowing grey strips of industrial felt...