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...years, shape was sure to go. Fortunately, skilled technicians got to work on the problem, finally turned up with an ANo. 1 solution called polyurethane elastomeric yarn (spandex) that stretches like skin, leaves no telltale bags or sags, and springs back into good-as-new condition without benefit of plastic surgery...
...Plastic" paint, as many artists call it, is made from acrylic and vinyl resins consisting of emulsion polymers, long strands of molecules floating in water. Wound into these strands, like prickles on barbed wire, are standard pigments. When the water evaporates, polymers and pigments bind into a film that is actually waterproof and can be scrubbed with soap and water...
...home and the future of an entire industry. Millions of cans no longer require keys or openers; they flip, zip, pop or peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses, now dispenses everything from cake icing to lotion for poison...
Pursuading the villagers to help them whenever possible, the Americans brought water down the side of a mountain from a spring, cleaned it out, laid plastic pipe and built a catch basin. The equipment, which cost a total of $500, was paid for by the Americans, who were later reimbursed by a St. Louis businessman, Jack Larner, who heard of their activities...
...Living Doll is a one-joke show, but the joke is a knockout. Julie Newmar, once of The Marriage-Go-Round, here plays a robot created by an aerospace scientist. Her viking-size body is actually a compilation of electronic equipment sheathed in homogenous polyethylene plastic. A mistress in a million, she will do anything she is told. In the middle of her back is an OFF and ON button. The man who works it is Bob Cummings, as a psychiatrist who is looking after Julie for his creative friend. "My construction is similar to the one-piece die casting...