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...turning a page to find an answer and a new frame the equivalent of switching frames on a machine. That permits easy cheating, but book programers argue that interesting programing eliminates the desire to peek ahead. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films' big programing division uses nothing but books, employing a plastic mask to reveal frames...
...kidney-shaped indoor pool. "That," I'll tell my visitors, "is where we throw the old, discarded girls." At the end of the pool is a waterfall, and you can swim through it twosies into a dark, warm grotto which has wide ledges at the sides, softened with plastic-cover-ed cushions...
...worked in an iron mine 1.600 ft. below the earth's surface. For quick energy, the methodical Hiebeler got an Austrian jam factory to devise a special marmalade packed with calories and vitamins. He designed boots armored with three layers of outer leather; he bought special plastic helmets and tough, extra-thin ropes. Keeping their plans a tight secret, the men practiced all winter on rocky, ice-coated walls. A fortnight ago the four slipped out of their hotel before dawn and tackled der Eiger...
Land himself never got a college degree. While a freshman at Harvard, he got the inspiration for the first practical material to polarize light (a transparent plastic sheet), left school for three years to perfect it. When he returned. Harvard gave him a laboratory to work in, but restless Din Land passed up a degree, left school to make his polarizers and carry on research. His chief aim was to sell Detroit on a system of polarized auto windshields and headlight lenses that would take the glare out of night driving. The industry never accepted the idea, but Land...
...huge costs of research and building make petrochemicals no place for a small operator. Celanese's new plant to produce its plastics metal near Bishop, Texas, is expected to cost $10 million, in addition to the earlier expense of developing the plastic. National Distillers' plant, to be built near Houston, will probably run to $15 million. Monsanto has an $80 million ethylene plant on the planning boards that will outproduce Mobil's entrant...