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They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours or less. "Anyone can use them," says their inventor, Jeanne Damon, 40, a onetime commercial artist, abstract painter and freelance knitwear designer. And if the resulting dresses are practically see-throughs, this is no drawback in the age of the body stocking...
...knitting as a way to hold their interest. To make it both more fun and easier, she provided them with whittled-down broomsticks. The children loved them. Sure that she was on to a good idea, she convinced New York's Reynolds Yarns Co. To make hollow inch-wide needles of aluminum. When it turned out that the new needles made it easy to blend up to six yarns at once, she had no trouble in persuading Reynolds to produce "Jumbo Jets" commercially...
...officials who warn you not to leave your hotel at night and not to go far from it during the day without a guide. As you drive up Canton's main street-People's Way-you are hit by what has become China's graffiti. Every inch of just about every building is covered with posters, as if naughty children had been let loose with paint and brushes. Swarms of people gather around government-printed posters that show the downcast faces of men who have been executed for antirevolutionary activity. Other posters attack Chiang Kaishek, Lyndon Johnson...
...magic bullets are unimpressive at first glance. Less than 4 in. long and one-tenth of an inch thick, they resemble the steel flechettes (French for "little arrows") used in some U.S. antipersonnel weapons in Viet Nam. What the TRW flechettes lack in size, they make up in penetration power. In recent tests, they punched completely through a 2-in.-thick armor plate that would stop most steel flechettes or heavy-caliber bullets fired...
Surveyor's findings are admittedly based on tiny samples. The spacecraft's alpha-particle analyzer covered only two 4-sq.-in. areas and probed them to a depth of only 1/1,000th of an inch. And it is conceivable that the lunar highland regions have a chemical composition different from that in the Sea of Tranquillity, where Surveyor landed. But scientists believe that Surveyor's findings are typical of the makeup of the other lunar seas, or basins...