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...drilling cannot be done on the continents because they are great rafts of granite "floating" in deeper plastic material. The granite is too thick (20 miles) to drill through. Oceanic islands are also ruled out as drilling sites; their weight has pressed the Moho to an impossible depth. The best place to drill is the floor of the great ocean basins. The floor may be three miles beneath the ocean's surface, but the Moho lies only three or four miles deeper, under a thin skin of sedimentary deposits and a layer of basalt...
Tripe. In Burlington, Vt., an agricultural journal listed the contents of the stomach of a slaughtered bull: safety pins, bobby pins, cartridge casings, two rubber heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...
Pocket Alarm. A tiny plastic timer attached to a key chain, which can be set to go off in any interval from five minutes to an hour, was put on sale by Jana Enterprises of Ridgewood, NJ. Price...
Near the domed "Idea Building" will be a fan-shaped, multilevel exhibition hall, glassed in and covered with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. Between the two buildings, the U.S. plastics industry will construct an all-plastic pavilion made of 70 interlocked plastic sections shaped like hexagonal umbrellas. Separate from both will be a display of 21 U.S. auto models, a pool for U.S.-made boats, and a Circarama similar to the 360° movie screen that proved a hit at the Brussels World's Fair...
...this type, made by the Travenol division of Baxter Laboratories. Cost: $1,300. Most important economy feature: instead of big moving parts that took hours to sterilize and set up, the core of the kidney now consists of a disposable unit of cellophane and plastic wire, not much bigger than a quart can, which comes pre-sterilized...