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...Antarctic mountains. Coal is the remains of lush vegetation, and nothing except a few hardy lichens and mosses grows in Antarctica now. One theory is that Antarctica had a tropical climate many millions of years ago. Another is that the earth's thin rocky crust shifted around its plastic core like the loose skin of a puppy, marching a fertile continent with all its plants and animals to frozen death at the Pole...
Roman Catholics and high-church Protestants may give rosaries in all shapes and sizes-from an "ecclesiastically approved recording rosary permanently encased in plastic" and designed to clip onto the gearshift lever of one's car, to a "pearl and silver finished rosary" with "a special clasp that converts it into a most attractive double-strand necklace...
...method of packaging frozen meat so that it can be kept for a year or refrozen after defrosting is being introduced by Wrigley supermarkets of Detroit.' After being trimmed, meat cuts are blast-frozen to -20°, encased in two thin, crystal-like, nontoxic sheets of plastic, which seal the meat from the air and protect the color and flavor...
...Tough Plastic. A new heat-and abrasive-resistant plastic, 100 Tenite Polyethylene, was announced by Eastman Kodak Co. The plastic is so tough that utensils made of it can be sterilized in boiling water or washed in automatic dishwashers...
Infant Feeder. A gadget that resembles a large hypodermic syringe has been developed by California's Deemer-Howard Associates for feeding solids and cereals to infants. Consisting of a transparent plastic tube with a plunger on one end that pushes food through to a nipple on the other end. the Infa-Feeder is designed to eliminate the usual messiness associated with infant feeding time. But it will probably not outsmart babies really determined to plaster their faces with food. Price...