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...than urrghs. It can also be one of the least expensive of sports. The traditional two-stick diamond costs only about 500; its major maker, the 56-year-old Hi-Flier Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Ill., sells millions of them yearly. An exotic 45-ft. dragon made of Mylar costs only about $8, while a large tetrahedral model sells for $20. (On the other hand, fancier, higher-flying kites can cost up to $2,000.) A 500-ft.-long, 30-lb.-test string costs about...
...Valley, only limited skiing is available, so more guests than usual while away their time trapshooting, riding horses and trading volleys on the tennis courts. In Northern California's Heavenly Valley, San Francisco secretary Lani Palmer practices parallel turns on an inclined treadmill of 30-ft.-wide Mylar carpeting strung between two spinning rollers. Says she: "That carpet makes it seem like I'm skiing through a dentist's office...
With $5000 of his own money, and with cooperation from city officials, Smith assembled miles of reflective mylar, 46,000 lightbulbs, a bunch of wood and a bunch of volunteers from various community groups to assemble the whole thing. "It all looked real flashy," Chuck says...
What a shame then, that no sooner had the decorations gone up than there arose one of those chill Cambridge winter winds, and all the mylar became shredded and began to fall into the street...
...mylar, and hang regular wreaths from the strings of bare lightbulbs that were left. Some people said the mylar also interfered with radios in fire trucks and ambulances...