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One firm covered the trails with loose Styrofoam pellets, which the wind blew into the woods. Others have experimented with long, shining strips of polymer plastics, which proved to be too slow and did not allow the ski edges to bite into the material on turns. Still others have developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Snowless Skiing, Iceless Skating | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Werner Bundschuh, a cameraman on loan from Polymer Films, took the pictures while perched in the bomb hatch of a World War II PBY.

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Students Capture Erupting Volcano | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

Just eight months after proudly announcing its support of the Strickman cigarette filter-for which it received a major financial interest in return-Columbia University last week did an embarrassed about-face. Acting at the request of the inventor, New Jersey Chemist Robert L. Strickman, who felt that the university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: The Unfinished Filter | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Strickman remains tight-lipped about exactly how his filter works. Unwilling to jeopardize his pending patent, he merely says the filter consists of a new type of partly crystalline, nontoxic polymer that works by "selective trapping," perhaps based on ion exchange and electrostatic action. He claims it costs little to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoking: The Strickman Filter | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Since watercolor is a quick medium, it appealed to him from the start because it fitted into his crowded sched ule. He also found that he could not tolerate the smell of turpentine nor the messiness of oils. Though watercolors lack the warmth of thicker media, Christ-Janer strives to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watercolors: Visions from the Greenhouse | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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