Word: nylons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French preserve since Coach Honoré Bonnet, 48, a feisty little ex-army officer, took over the team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...
...plan ran afoul of Surveyor 7's first glitch. After firing a small explosive charge to free the box, the scientists began lowering it on a nylon cord. Halfway down, the box stuck. Using the spacecraft's TV camera to hunt for the source of the trouble and working with duplicate models, JPL scientists and engineers from JPL and Hughes Aircraft, designer of the moon robot, struggled to set it free. Twice they nudged it with the digger arm. No luck. All it did was swing a bit. Then they tried again, using the arm to steady...
Five Minutes a Year. A prime reason for Goodyear's historic success has been innovation-or, as Chairman Russell DeYoung puts it, "You can reflect on past glories for five minutes each year, then forget it." Goodyear's firsts include the rayon cord tire in 1938, the nylon cord in 1947 and the polyester cord in 1962. Last week the company's latest creation was introduced: a polyester and fiber-glass tire, which will be sold as a replacement for original equipment tires and is said by the company to have twice their lifetime. More expensive than...
...output illustrates the question, picturing death in life, the swift passage of beauty as an integral part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...
...Along the way, he has introduced vinyl clothes developed out of a material that looks completely "today" and a series of freeing designs aimed at giving back to the female body its natural look and curves, including his knit tank suits, his No-Bra bra, and sheer, see-through nylon blouses...