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...Aubrey Lee asks ailing listeners to place their hands on their radio sets while he intones: "We rebuke that vile disease. Satan, take your vile disease from that body. God bless everyone in the household, including old grandma or granddad with that old rheumatism." Inducements offered by others: a plastic cross that glows in the dark ("the glow of God's presence") and, for a certain sum, of course, "a genuine autographed picture of Jesus Christ...
...each giant new residential section, the builders saw highest priority awarded to cultural centers "verging on temples." But the quality of workmanship in the residential centers was sloppy. Reported Smith: "Finishings and exteriors are done very badly. Parts slip off, and plastic or ceramic facings just don't want to stay in place. This creates a maintenance problem for which the Russians aren't prepared." Materials also looked bad, by American standards. "Paint rubs off easily, so we never walked close to walls. Water pipes get rusty, and wires are too narrow-gauge to light more than...
Clean Ribbon. Royal Typewriter Co. is bringing out a new portable on which the ribbon can be changed without dirtying hands. Two spools of ribbon, each in a separate plastic case, are slipped onto the carriage, and dropped into open ribbon slots. First stroke of a key automatically locks the ribbon in place...
...noirozeh) has been coined to express a state of extreme nervousness which affects many Japanese after U.S., Soviet and British bomb tests. In understandably jittery Hiroshima, welfare agencies publish bulletins after each rain to assure the citizens that it is not dangerous. In Osaka schoolchildren are told to wear plastic raincoats with hoods. One school held drills to teach the children how to hold their umbrellas so that their hands and faces would not get spattered. Policemen in Itami demanded plastic gloves because their service raincoats do not cover their hands...
...Plastics & Ramjets. Gambling on the new Crusader, Detweiler threw most of his 2,000-man engineering force into the project. Though the first designs were approved by the Navy in May 1953, while C. V. was still under United's wing, the company had to build the plane on its own, used every trick to make sure the Crusader lived up to specifications, developed some of its own, e.g., transparent plastic fuel tanks and pipes to test the fuel flow in every conceivable position in advance. Within 22 months from the time C. V. won the design competition...