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...changeable are U.S. communities that new schools can become obsolete tomorrow. Needed: buildings as portable as tepees, as stretchable as the mind. Last week the nearest thing to this ideal was announced by M.I.T.'s department of architecture-a plastic prefab school that can be erected on its foundation in a week, dismantled and reassembled elsewhere in about...
...secret: a series of steel-and-plastic "tree units," which look like beach umbrellas with canopies curving upward instead of down. Bolted together, they form ceilings and roof; supporting pipe columns carry the load. By simply adding or subtracting tree units, the school can be expanded as the community's needs change -or moved to a new site...
...TRADE THAW by Commerce Department promises to increase U.S. exports to Russia. Decision to grant license to Omni Products Corp. to ship $1,000,000 worth of plastic-pipe production machinery to Russia is seen as part of move by Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller to encourage individual trade deals...
...Disposable Toothbrush. A plastic toothbrush designed to be used once, then thrown away, will be put on sale by the Flex-I-Brush Corp. of Lodi, NJ. Filled with toothpaste and sealed in plastic film, the brush is molded in one piece of polyethylene. Price: 10? each, three...
...Also at Canaveral, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tried to fling into orbit a10-lb. plastic and aluminum inflatable sphere that would circle the earth like an oversized beach ball (diameter: 12 ft.), measuring friction in the outer reaches of the atmosphere. The three-stage Juno II rocket itself (a modification of the Army's operational workhorse Jupiter) blasted off without a hitch, but the beach ball never achieved orbit, probably through a failure in the attitude control system...