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...Plastic Patina. Some contemporary sculpture now jostling for Liebensraum in the living room cries less for the patina of age than for the quick eye jab of bright plastic paint. The result is a spate of new polychromists (see opposite page). Among them...
...wonderfully plastic set designed by Alexander Pertzoff reduces the awkwardness of frequent scene changes. The same technical skill appears in the music, costumes, and artwork...
...skis today are laminated and the best combination in wooden skis is hickery with ash; flexibility is determined by the ratio of the two. In the lower price ranges ash is mainly used. The ski should have a durable plastic base, preferably "Kofix" or "P-Tex" which are polyethy. lene bottoms, require very little waxing and are easy to repair. Steel edges should be interlocking and slightly offset at tips and ends of the ski. The top should have a plastic cover or lacquer and plastic cover or lacquer and plastic top edges...
According to Fadden, the greatest advances in the prevention of injury have been in improved equipment. New, lightweight plastic pads have been developed for the thighs, hips, shoulders, and kidneys which distribute the blow without weighing the player down. Two-way stretch fabrics, spectacularly successful in ski pants, find a more practical use in football. They allow uniforms to be tailored to hold the pads snugly in place and prevent them from sliding...
...best safeguards against snow blindness for the skier planning any length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful ultraviolet rays. For safety make, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grases a tree limb on a downhill...