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Another of Manhattan's new plastics men is Neal Small, 30, who believes that old-fashioned visible furniture is too "weighty, massive and oppressive-like having a dead whale in the living room." Small's answer is cubistic hard plastic chairs and tables, each transparent unit molded as one piece. His small rectangular tables have a surface only 13 in. by 16 in., but four of the units can be clustered to make a square coffee table or lined up in a row to make a long sideboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Pop Goes the Plastic | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...Paris, who appropriated the name of the most distant starlike bodies in the universe to distinguish himself from his better-known wife Emmanuelle, who is a pretty far-out designer of women's clothes. Quasar's furniture also uses just two components: pillows and a hard plastic frame shaped like a squashed three-dimensional U that, standing up, serves as a chair, on its side can be used as a see-through table. "Transparency is the criterion of our age," proclaims Quasar, but like other see-through inflatables, his furniture can be filled with water colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Pop Goes the Plastic | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...behind the beetle-faced canvas and plastic masks, paratroopers, it is rumored, cried when they saw women carrying off screaming babies, 15-year-old boys vomiting on the side of the road, and girls clutching scarves to their faces so they wouldn't gag on the sandy...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: 'Demonstrations Will Never Be The Same; We've Turned The Pentagon Upside Down' | 10/25/1967 | See Source »

Conventional plastic surgery to remove tattoos takes a long time and often leaves unsightly scars. But using laser beams, a team of University of Cincinnati doctors have developed a technique that literally explodes tattoo dyes out of skin, with less pain and often less scarring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plastic Surgery: Laserasing Tattoos | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...operation would be far simpler than transplanting a heart, liver or even a kidney. But Dr. Norman emphasized that further experimentation-with dogs-must be conducted before spleen transplantation is attempted on a human being. Then, in all probability, a donor's spleen will be enclosed in a plastic bag, hooked up to a hemophiliac's circulating system and hung externally on his arm until it is certain that the method works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: Making Progress | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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