Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wings." Aluminum hydrofoils that lift pleasure craft from the water by creating an upward pressure at speeds of ten knots or higher were introduced by Reynolds Metals Co. and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. The wings, which come in a do-it-yourself kit, increase a boat's speed up to 30%, cut fuel consumption, make for smoother riding. Price: $390 a pair...
...state program to develop a cheap "survival kit" including a water container (ten gallons a person), a two-week supply of dehydrated food, candles, a battery-powered radio and a toilet container. Urgently needed, said the task force, is another survival item "not yet in existence": a cheap, accurate, simple radiation-detection device. Radiation "cannot be seen, touched, tasted or felt," and if people in shelters had no reliable way of testing whether radiation had fallen to endurable levels outside, fear and doubt could wreck their morale and impair the nation's capacity to rebound...
...abreast of the missile era, the Magazine has added to its list of contributors many a starlit name from the ranks of space engineers, e.g., Hugh Dryden and Heinz Haber, remapped the firmament in its monumental Sky Atlas (price: about $1,200), even peddled (for $2) a Sputnik-tracing kit for the edification of backyard satellite hunters. But it remains solidly indentured to the principles laid down by Gilbert Grosvenor years ago, still segregates advertising and editorial copy, runs no liquor, tobacco or real-estate ads, hustles no lagging subscriber, still refuses to say anything controversial or unkind...
Smith, playing ninth, beat Tim Scarf, 7-5, 6-0, while Chute, at number ten, outlasted Toby Worth, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Princeton picked up its only singles wins at seven and eight, where John Cartier beat Jim Cameron, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, and Kit Huttig used his tremendous overhead shot to defeat Laurie Pratt...
...singles and three doubles for EIL purposes and ten and five for Big Three standings. Conroy concedes that the varsity probably has an edge in the bottom four singles spots, where Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith and Scott Custer meet Tigers John Cartier, Tim Scarff, Kit Huttig and Toby Worth...