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...committee will also work on improving the design of replacement parts for the human body. Although recent progress has been made in developing plastic organs and electronically-controlled artificial limbs, medical researchers have in the past, complained that they don't know enough about fluid engineering and electrical circuitry...
...salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...
Technology-belatedly-is coming to the aid of police in other ways as well. A new, extra-tough plastic helmet, developed by the American Safety Equipment Corp., has deflected countless bricks and bottles in such places as Newark and Cincinnati, while Pennsylvania state police have bought plastic shields, from the Gentex Corp., for even greater protection, gladiator style...
...been fireproofed with twelve coats of Ladicote paint, newly developed by North American. Bundles of wire, previously exposed to dangerous scuffing and wear during assembly, maintenance, tests and flight, are now encased in protective metal panels that double as fire walls. In addition, such flammables as nylon nets and plastic containers have been replaced by nonflammable or fire-resistant materials like Teflon...
When it was finally attempted, the assassination was thoroughly bungled Stauffenberg selected himself as the an-?el of destruction; it was his crippled hand that placed the briefcase stuffed with plastic explosives at Hitler's feet in a briefing hut in East Prussia on July 20, 1944. The outcome is an old tory. A chance gesture pushed the bomb out of killing range of Hitler, "thirteen officers were wounded; Hitler was only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight...