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features Battalion/Page November 4, Only one of these pens isthinenough to draw the lineoelow. It's the extra-fine rolling ball of Pilot’s remarkable new Precise Ball Liner Pen. (If you haven't guessed which one it is. look at the top photo again. It’s the trim beauty on the bottom left.) But unlike the others, the real beauty of Pilot’s Precise Ball Liner is the extra-fine line it puts on paper. It glides smoothly across the page because its tiny tungsten carbide ball is held securely within a needle-like stainless steel collar. A collar that makes the Precise Ball Liner the most durable, trouble-free rolling ball pen you can buy. It’s letter-writer’sjoy. An artist’s dream. A scribbler’s delight. .3 One more fine point: the Pilot Precise Ball Liner doesn’t have a big, fat price. It’sjust a skinny $1.19. A-slippin’ and a-slidin staff photo by Jorge Cm Physical education lecturer Jim Woosley, during one of his skiing classes at Mt. Aggie, uses Jill Hendrickson to demonstrate what not to do while slipping down the slopes. Hendrickson is sophomore from Houston studying mechanical engineering. nn Dob! Indent, t( faftshop. The ruling ball pen that revolutionizes thin writing. Moi'C try tO flX It tllCIllSClvCS United Press International RALEIGH, N.C. — The dis posable society has entered the E-Systems continues the tradition of the world’s great problem solvers. Maxwell’s electro magnetic field theory led to huge practical scientific advances. His light theory led to his own development of one of the first color photos and the kinetic theory of gasses. . Scientists and en gineers at E-Systems are carrying on in the tradition of Maxwell’s genius. Today, they are solving some of the world’s toughest problems in electronically steered phased array antennas, electromagnetic scattering and solar ray concentration, using his findings as tools. E-Systems is main taining a reputation for designing and building communications, data, antenna, intelligence and reconnaissance systems that are often the first-of-a- kind in the world. For a reprint of the Maxwell illustration and information on career opportunities with E-Sys tems in Texas, Florida, Indiana, Utah or Virginia, write: Lloyd K. Lauderdale, V.P. — Research and Engi neering, E-Systems, Corporate Headquarters, P.O. Box 226030, Dallas, Texas 75266. E-SYSTEMS The problem solvers. An equal opportunity employer M/F. H. V fix-it-yourselt age. With every swing of their hammers, more and more peo ple are tolling the end of service calls by making repairs them selves. Industry researchers esti mate up to 85 percent of all American households under took at least one home, garden 'or auto project in 1981. Market analysts say Amer icans will spend $32.9 million to $34.4 million this year for home improvement materials. That’s at least 20 percent above 1981 sales. They predict sales by 1990 will triple this year’s level. “You don’t need skill so much as the guts to do it,” says Patty Kaasa. She and husband Steve have shent three years renovat ing their Victorian home. “If anybody gets the wobblies about this, consider your op tions: Are you willing to spend a couple of years doing this or do you want to spend your time liv ing in a house trailer?” she said. Others say it’s a relief to work with their hands after spending the day at a desk job. Most get .self-satisfaction out of a well- done project. There is a growing willing ness to tackle increasingly com plicated projects. While a 1982 Building Supply News study shows a third of the nation’s 71.1 million do-it- yourself jobs still were simple chores like painting, it also found 27.1 percent were much more sophisticated — plumbing or electrical work. General Electric research in dicates four of every 10 major appliance repairs are handled by the owner or a friend of the owner. A study by Home Genter magazine describes the typical do-it-yourselfer as a 48-year-old male with a $28,()()() a year white-collar job. About half are college-educated. Another study shows that offspring of the post-World War II Baby Boom make up 46.8 percent of the fix-it crowd. The industry’s Do-It-Yourself Re search Institute says they are most likely to seek new housing and to be hurt by the home con struction slump. Many people now look for older homes they can hammer and paint and turn into dream houses. Analysts say that trend alone is enough to keep hard ware and supply stores busy in the next decade. Denise Ppythress, a Raleigh woman who runs her own pic ture framing business, joined the do-it-yourself crowd when her 1940s apartment complex was converted into a condomi nium last year. She has changed switch plates, laid extra attic insulation, repainted a bathroom, replaced electric sockets and installed new plasterboard in closets. “It wasn’t dangerous,” she said. “Most of it was time- consuming, but I saved a lot and I feel I’ve done a good job. “I do it partly for the enjoy ment, doing it myself and seeing the job done. At the same it’s an investment. This i! first home, and I want lor money on what I do.” The Kaasas practicalh'reliii jQ^j 1 >pa m Doited Pres: ' ON Oberg alu ut some exc mother, bt Ik them sot -as in his missio their house. They added el? trical wiring, new plan placed bricks and mortar, even installed a new floor I nace. Kaasa said he pickedupM skills by helping a brother and neighbor with their house novations. “My parents didn’t doll kind of thing,” said Lorri Laslett, another condo ort doing home improvemenn«* “When my mother wantedloj ,ii„ f . 0n .f? something she hired an iitjet) decorator.’ She and her boyfriend | built a small wall to repla open stair railing. She painted two bathrooms i! helped install a new baijjiislj “Unless bv some H women duced to usually are neverint <t T 1L > this," she said.“A4 i ni „ t e ™ ( Our Greenville Division will be on campus interviewing November 18 think that’s one of thedi® ties they find themselves rudimentary knowledge of id and materials is just simply? there. I think you can findyoi self more afraid of these uni ^ takings than you reallyoug! be.” T hat fear helps explain: workers in stores such as Maryland-based Hechihgerj chain are as much teacher salesmen. 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