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...submerged in a dishpan or washed in an automatic dishwasher was introduced at the National Housewares Show at Atlantic City this week. Manufactured by National Presto Industries (pressure cookers) of Eau Claire, Wis., the stainless steel pot has both heating element and thermostat enclosed in a waterproof plastic base, is the first submersible coffeemaker to win Underwriters Laboratories approval. Price: about...
Almost as arresting as the nirvana caterpillar was a weird, 12-ft. high representation of the cell, basic unit of life, presented by Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co. Its shell was a fantastic latticework of clear plastic tubes. Inside were equally ingenious, sausage-shaped plastic gadgets representing mitochondria and fat globules. There was also a gaudy red nucleus, like a gang of tortured octopuses outdoing Laocoön's serpents, with centrosomes that made it look as though it had just landed from outer space...
Producer Douglas set aside yet another $1,000,000 to light the publicity bonfires and warn the populace that "The Vikings Are Coming!" Reviewers all over the U.S. have been showered with plastic viking ships and savage-looking letter openers in the form of a viking dagger. Seven Norwegian seamen, lured by the hope of adding another Leif to the nautical history of the Northmen, are sailing across the Atlantic in one of the ships used in the film, and the TV cameras will be waiting for them at the docks. The opening of the picture was described by Douglas...
...recession is hurting the island, and with unionization and rising wages, the tax-exemption law, which expires at the end of 1963, is left as the main incentive. But in a single week recently, U.S. investors were in Puerto Rico to study prospects in plastic webbing, dresses, sportswear, tourist hotels, motorboat trailers, wall tiles, plastic toys, scientific apparatus, shoe machinery and cookies...
Fastest Gun. A new electronic game to determine the fastest-drawing young cowpoke in the block was put on sale by Kilgore, Inc., Westerville, Ohio. Titled Fastest Gun, the game provides a plastic steer skull and two six-shooters (attached to 8-ft. wires) with plastic holsters. The boy who draws faster and pulls the trigger makes one eye in the skull light up and ring a bell. Price...