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Died. Games Slayter, 67, inventor of Fiberglas; of a heart attack; in Columbus. A recently retired vice president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Slayter developed a straw-thick glass fiber for air filters in 1931, after seven more years of research came up with the fine, flexible "glass wool" now used for everything from draperies to boat hulls, winning his company more than 130 lucrative patents...
...INTERIOR DECORATION: "Only the mindless house is dull. When the mode calls for colonial they are ruffled and cobbler-benched within an inch of their lives. When the vogue stipulates wall-to-wall carpeting, everything, including stairways, smothers ankle-deep in wool. The whole" effect of such interiors is as handsome-and as lifeless-as model rooms in department stores...
...taught me that a middle-class Ivy League boy should be dignified and reserved, and here I was making a public spectacle of myself. There were no incidents. People just stared. I remember I began to feel terribly depressed whenever a Negro crossed the picket line and went into Wool-worths...
...cluster of three hexagons with cable-hung, sprayed concrete roofs; and a fourth-Sherwood school-that consists of four adjoining circular structures all containing V-shaped classrooms, plus an equal-size domed play area with infrared heating for cold days. Sherwood school is thickly carpeted in a beige, all-wool "acoustical floor covering." Parents call it the Sherwood Hilton, but Grimes is quick to tell them that the $21,000 cost of the carpeting is worth it.* Pupils relax informally on the floor. Teachers kick off their shoes. A music class proceeds without the distractions of noisily scraping chairs...
...amaze like Rudi Gernreich (of the topless-suit Gernreichs). He is a fashion moderate in step with the day, inventive but practical, inspired but patient. His virtues have paid off in a long line of fashion hits: the evening shirtwaist, the empire look, the chemise, the wool evening dress, the sequined sheath and culottes...