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Although the theory remains vague, the potential uses of Nitinol alloys seem apparent enough. Goodyear Aerospace Corp. has already demonstrated that a complex Nitinol satellite antenna crumpled up into a small ball before launching can be restored to its original form simply by heating it in space. The same procedure has been proposed for orbiting a radio telescope as large as a mile in diameter. "All we have to do," says Buehler, "is put these large structures into suitably compact packages on the ground and then kick them into space and let them unfold from solar heating...
...frost-encrusted Ice Stick by Hans Haacke at the Milwaukee Art Center last week, visitors were expected to chill their fingers. All of the "Do Not Touch" signs in the gallery had been removed. OUCH! Gallerygoers could warm their fingers on three electrified aluminum columns that Sculptor John Goodyear calls Heat Sequence. And they could sit upon and be jiggled about by Royce Dendler's mechanized box titled Vibrate. By pressing buttons, they could activate David Jacobs' siren and two aluminum-and-rubber resonators, entitled collectively Mother's Mechanical Wonderful...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...PAUL R. GOODYEAR...
...manufacturers are finding their markets at home and abroad besieged by aggressive foreign firms. Some 10% of the autos, 12% of the steel, and 31% of the shoes now reaching U.S. consumers are imported. "We simply can't compete on price," says Chairman Russell De Young of Goodyear Tire & Rubher Co., explaining bluntly why 300,000 of the 467,000 motorcycle tires sold in the U.S. last year were foreign-made...