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...used carriage bolts, foam pontoons, a rudder and rocket engine, a tank of carbon dioxide and two bicycles for wheel power, Alan Stern '79, one of the builders said yesterday...
...past decade, Rossignol's capacity has risen twentyfold, to 2 million skis a year of wood, metal, plastic and fiber-glass foam. Because cross-country skis are booming, Boix-Vives plans to double capacity in that department this year to 350,000 skis. But his strategy involves more than expansion of capacity. As volume grew in the mid-'60s, the company's increased productivity enabled Boix-Vives to adopt a policy of, as he puts it, "aggressive pricing"; Rossignol prices stayed completely stable from 1964 all the way to 1972. Today Rossignol produces eight principal lines...
Unweds and newlyweds and suddenly de-weds have traditionally made do with orange crates and teetery constructions of brick and board. Quite recently, many Americans have discovered that they can assemble stylish, comfortable, totable furnishings with paper, cardboard, plywood, Masonite, rough lumber, foam rubber, epoxy glue, a staple gun and unlimited imagination. Moreover, the home Hepplewhite can construct anything from a coffee table to a meditation center that fits his or her own vision, taste and living quarters. Inexpensively. And almost instantly...
...very simple elements to put together to sit on, eat at or store in." This kind of fun, and indeed new departures in design, has been made possible by a marriage of technology and sprightly aesthetics. Explains Zakas: "Probably the biggest single element has been the development of urethane foam. Before foam, you had to have springs, and they are a real hassle." The new supergrip glues have also been a boon to the basement Sheraton: they will hold wood joints together more durably than the most exquisite doweling. Easy-to-handle materials such as Masonite, plywood and Plexiglas have...
...cause, their patience is bound to be tried if the strike drags on. In Glasgow, a fire in a textile factory got away from a company of 80 troops and raged for twelve hours. The building burned to the ground. As soldiers stood by helplessly without enough foam spreaders and breathing equipment which strikers had refused to hand over, a 30-hour blaze engulfed a $140 million power plant east of London...