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...FONT'S second-quarter sales of $631 million were the highest in its history, and its earnings rose to $2.52 per share, v. $2.15 last year. Du Pont is starting a $50 million program to expand its nylon plants...
...wide variety of jobs requires a wide variety of electronics. The surface of the 170-lb. sphere glitters with electricity-generating solar cells. Suspended by nylon cords inside, a 20-in. aluminum canister is crammed with gadgetry. Pink plastic foam nestles around batteries, switches, sensing instruments, 1,064 transistors and 1,464 diodes. But for all the jobs that it can do, Telstar's most spectacular achievement is its radio and TV relay system. A receiver inside the canister amplifies signals received from earth 10 billion times, changes them in frequency from 6,390 to 4,170 megacycles...
...Cyclades owe their new verdant look to a fleet of water-carrying Dracones -huge, sausage-shaped bags of rubber-covered nylon, which are towed over to the islands daily from the Greek mainland. The Dracone-which gets its name from the Greek word for serpent-was conceived during the 1956 Suez crisis by British Engineer William Rede Hawthorne, 49. Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol. But soon there was a glut of oil tankers-and European refineries...
...name; on the other, he shudders at the thought of that name becoming the name for anybody else's similar product. Kodak, B.V.D., and Coca-Cola have for generations bared their teeth in courtrooms to protect their names from slipping into the generic limbo where mimeograph and nylon now languish in lower-case ignominy...
...they looked fake and felt creepy. Then, a couple of months ago, a synthetic wig made of Dynel was introduced that looked like hair, felt like hair, kept its curl (or coiffure) for months without resetting, and was relatively cheap. Imitators and competitors came up with part-hair, part-nylon models (like the Myerlon wigs, at $35; the acetate, at $10.95), and even with cheap, phony party or swim-cap versions...