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...ugly clutter of cages and legs going in different directions" is based on the design of a police street sign. By carefully calculating the base area of his new chair, he achieved the stability of four legs without weighting the bottom of the porcelain-enameled aluminum pedestal. The plastic seats are of tulip-shaped organic design, can have richly colored cushions to temper modern simplicity with elegance. The tables, in neutral colors, will be topped with marble or fine wood. Saarinen's new pieces are scheduled to go into mass production at Knoll Associates in September, will sell...
...along the lines sketched out by the great men of its early days. Endocrinologist George W. Thorn and colleagues are still exploring the adrenals, gradually outlining the role of a recently discovered and potent but little-understood hormone, aldosterone. Dr. Harken is working with famed Scientist Vannevar Bush on plastic valves which may actually replace the aortic valve in patients with some kinds of heart damage...
Candy Butcher. Replacing old-style coach-car candy butchers, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is equipping New York-Washington passenger trains with stainless-steel-and-plastic vending wagons designed by the Coca-Cola Co. Manned by attendants trained to tinkle a polite bell instead of loudly hawking their wares, the carts have insulated containers for hot coffee, cold milk, fruit juice, soft drinks, also carry sandwiches, fruit, pastry, doughnuts, cakes, candy...
...Play-dome is the most recent of Matrix' brain-children. Built on the "geodesic principle" of interlocking triangles, the dome is a hardwood and pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
...Charles is lined with hemispheres and sunbathers. The only problem in such a beach umbrella substitute would be its transportation--but geometry may have solved that too. Two geodesic domes fastened together make a geodesic sphere. Couples could climb into this Double Play-dome, seal themselves in with the plastic cover, and roll down Linden or Holyoke Street to the river, before hatching into the sun. Matrix Structures Inc. has the answer for spring escapism: Back to nature via the egg--a geodesical one with a tough vinyl plastic shell...