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...captivated by her beauty," warned Socialist Dr. Ram Lohia. "Inside she is pure venom!" He further claimed that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 64, retained her youthful good looks only because she had undergone plastic surgery in Europe...
When the National Science Foundation reported that young children could easily learn a lot about optics, Creative Playthings, Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., invented a tough, clear plastic bag which, filled with water, makes a big and satisfying magnifying glass. The same company also devised a three-legged stool whose height is equal to the focal length of a giant lens in the middle of the seat, a triangular wood box with three peephole lenses for viewing an object's change in size, and a merry-go-round of mirrors that reflect other mirrors and spy around corners...
Search for Food. Since Lesch became president in 1960, Colgate has introduced such successful new products as Baggies plastic bags, Halo hair spray, Ajax detergent powder, and half a dozen others th#t now account for 15% of its annual sales of $800 million. Colgate is testing freeze-dry foods with a view to jumping into the food field, is searching to acquire a food company. This week, battling to regain the top of the U.S. toothpaste market that it lost to Procter & Gamble's Crest, it began national marketing of a white-colored, mint-tasting, fluoridated toothpaste called...
...scientists at Du Pont's Experimental Station first found a way to duplicate leather's "breathability" by impregnating plastic material with threadlike fibers-and then dissolving the fibers. Then, as is its habit, Du Pont generated an internal competition by pitting two of its departments against each other in a battle that raged for two years amid warlike secrecy. In 1955 the fabrics and finishes department devised a mixture of tough polyurethane and resilient polyester fibers that most suitably duplicated leather's qualities. Du Pont's top-strategy Executive Committee gave the go-ahead for what...
...list of exceptions included machine tools, electrical equipment, trucks, buses and even nuclear reactors-and compared poorly with the U.S. list which totaled only 8% of dutiable imports. Britain named coal, lead and zinc, plastic products and many cotton textiles in a list that covered 5% of its imports. Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland offered to slice all their tariffs in half if other nations reciprocate. And a delegate from Czechoslovakia showed up as the only Communist to offer a number of concessions that would align his country with GATT to a limited extent, thus demonstrating the shifting economic...