Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tennis buffs have dreamed for years of a grass court where the rain never falls and the sun never blinds and the wind never blows. It is more than a dream in Litchfield, Conn., where the Forman School recently unveiled its synthetic solution to the problem-a tennis court surfaced with grass made of vinyl and sheltered by a nylon tent...
Even more novel is the artificial grass of the court itself. It is made by a Japanese patented process originally devised for doormats. The plastic is poured into a square mold with 800 indentations per square inch. When the drying plastic is pulled away, the nubs stick, and stretch into "blades" of grass. Then the squares are laid on an asphalt court, just as a homeowner might lay tile on a kitchen floor. The result is a durable and resilient surface, which is divot-proof, affords better footing and less leg fatigue and keeps both balls and players free from...
Tennis Star Gardnar Mulloy spent an afternoon on the court, called it "the best indoor court I've ever played on." Though Mulloy found that the fake grass fibers slow the court a fraction too much to suit a top-ranked player, he pronounced it "about as ideal a surface as you could have for the average player...
...Director of Development Stowell Mears, who wangled a grant from the Ford Foundation's Educational Facilities Laboratories. But estimates are that the whole thing could be duplicated for about $25,000-$10,000 for the bubble, $4,500 for the asphalt base, $10,000 for the vinyl grass. In comparison, a real grass court, even without the bubble, costs about $25,000 to construct and requires the additional expense of upkeep and maintenance. The Forman court, if damaged or worn bare, can be replaced easily square by square. The new surface is already considered so successful that Manhattan...
...much now as I could 40 years ago," says Jones, and it does not seem to be an idle boast. He can still do 30 fast push-ups without breathing hard, credits his energy to eight hours of good sleep a night plus "grace, grass* and gumption." The most important of these, unquestionably, is grace. Jones believes that "the chief business of the Christian is reconciliation." He has spent a lifetime trying to reconcile East and West, white man and black, the world and Jesus Christ...