Word: guillet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glamour entries were not the only ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself...
...roast sheep and couscous, was laid out, along with champagne and mint tea. Hassan ate with his seven-year-old son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, one of his five children, under a special canopy. Near by sat Habib Bourguiba Jr., son of Tunisia's President. Italian Ambassador Amedeo Guillet, who makes it a practice never to eat at midday, lounged on a Moroccan pouf reading The Peter Principle...
...Suddenly a pop! pop! pop! sound erupted near the palace gates. Most of the guests assumed it was firecrackers. Guillet, an ex-soldier, was one of the few who instantly recognized the sound as rifle fire. Like others, however, he dismissed it as a royal bodyguard's birthday salute. Then the holiday affair took a horrifying turn. Rockwell was strolling toward Hassan when he saw a guest in front of him topple to the floor, blood gushing from his leg. Hit by gunfire, a Moroccan man was spun around by the impact and fell against Guillet, leaving two sets...
...Guillet's team got around such problems by finding a way to chemically bond groups of "sensitized" molecules directly into the plastic's carbon chain. When these "S" groups absorb ultraviolet light from direct sunlight, he says, their carbon "backbones" soon begin to be decomposed by microorganisms. But indoors-even in front of glass windows-they will not be affected. Guillet claims that the speed of the breakdown can be controlled by varying the number of "S" groups bonded into the plastic molecules. He also thinks that the process would raise the price of plastics by only...
...first uses," says Guillet, "in wrappings and containers that get left behind outside, or are thrown overboard." The new plastics can also be used as a covering for some crops. Once ripped by weather, the film would be broken into even smaller particles by microorganisms-and so could be plowed back into the earth as fertilizer...