Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessman put it last week, "we are suffering from a misery of choice." Paperboard competes with plastics, steel with aluminum, thin tin with glass. The latest battle shaping up is between the new composition cans (commonly paperboard covered with foil) and traditional metal cans, which were already warring with glass. Fiber-foil cans cost 15% less than tin-plate cans, are lighter and usually can be opened with less effort. They have already moved into the motor oil can market once dominated by tin plate, and their makers confidently plan to use them for coffee, paint, beer and soft drinks...
...business now in printing securities for such corporate giants as A.T.& T., General Motors. Du Pont and General Electric, it often knows months in advance that a company is planning a stock split or a new bond issue-information Wall Street speculators would love to have. And to foil counterfeiters, it uses special paper embedded with colored disks, mixes its own inks, and even makes its own special presses. Every item is counted and recorded 33 times from raw paper to finished product, and rejects are cremated in blazing furnaces...
...varsity fencing team grabbed a ninth place in the 12-team Intercollegiate Championships at Pennsylvania this weekend and then watched Ivy League leader Columbia win the triple weapon trophy for epee, sabre, and foil...
...senior Steve Khinoy, who placed fourth in the epee contest. Khinoy won an honorable mention as best sportsman of the two-day tourney. Although he enjoys the best record on the Harvard epee team for season play, Khinoy is ineligible for an all-Ivy spot because he fenced foil at the start of the season...
Spurred by the outstanding fencing of Howard Goodman, N.Y.U. won the sabre crown. Goodman went undefeated in 11 semifinal matches and lost only one bout in the finals. Columbia took the weapon trophy, but the Lions failed to foil championship in addition to the triple keep Navy from winning the epee title...