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...other serious outdoorsmen know well, simply heaping on clothes brings on the sweats-and the sweat can swiftly freeze. The best bottom-line investment (for about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late...
...planes or supercharged racing cars. But the sobriquets belong to tennis racquets, crafted in strange shapes of exotic materials, and designed to bestow court greatness on weekend hackers. In search of a bigger "sweet spot," more power and control, manufacturers have imbedded boron fibers in an epoxy matrix, reinforced nylon throat pieces with quartz, turned to the builders of nuclear reactors for ultrasonic welding techniques and altered the spacing of strings. The physics laboratories at Princeton where Albert Einstein once worked have been used to experiment with variants of torque and longitudinal flex. Practically every element and compound known...
...Bean's is complaining, since business has jumped 30% each year since 1967. The famous quarterly Bean catalogue, crammed with nylon gaiters, duck-hunting caps, long Johns and the like, now goes out to 2 million geared-up customers. After operating only one retail outlet (in Seattle) for 18 years, Eddie Bauer has opened nine new stores across the nation since 1971. At Gokeys, the mailing list has grown by almost half since last year. The new country-chic look has even received benediction from fashion critics who gave out Coty awards (fashion's Oscars) last September...
...said Artist Christo Javacheff (professional name: Christo) in his dense Bulgarian accent, talking to a reporter in 1968. Last week this prediction was coming true-more or less-as Christo's latest project, Running Fence, moved toward completion on the coast of northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County, wending 24½ miles up hill and down dale, over ten public roads (including Highway 101) and through dozens of farms, to finish inland near Petaluma, Calif. For an artwork, it has consumed staggering...
Shapiro took over a company that had been family managed since the days when it sold gunpowder to Thomas Jefferson and, in the new chairman's view, had been made complacent by its long record of innovations (the most famous: the invention of nylon by Du Pont Scientist Wallace Carothers in the 1930s). Says Shapiro: "There was a smugness, a feeling that we're just a little better than anyone else. It took some bitter experience to cleanse the system...