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...secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning. To preserve its elegant finish (two double coats of lacquer, triple-thickness chromium plating), each Continental will be shipped to the dealer in a fleece-lined canvas and plastic envelope...
...exhibit of his new sand castings failed to sell. But France's famed Architect Le Corbusier, then in Manhattan working on the U.N. Secretariat, visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut sculptural form. . . Only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand." Other architects agreed, snapped up Nivola's idea to decorate their buildings with sand murals. Among them: Italy's Olivetti Co (typewriters and calculating machines), which commissioned a 15-ft.-by-70-ft. mural for its Manhattan offices...
...Suspension Vaults." A policyholder stricken with "radiation" poisoning (a common ailment), or dying of disease for which The Company scientists have not yet found a cure, may sign his life into abeyance at the Clinic, receive a simple injection and get himself filed away inside a clear plastic bubble down in the deep-freeze vaults until the time, five or ten or 50 years hence, when a cure is found, and The Company deems him a safe actuarial risk once more...
...Prosthetics Research Laboratory (started from scratch in 1945) is one of the world's most famed designers of artificial limbs. From pioneering in cineplasty (placing hooks in stump muscles to work limbs, so that artificial arms can now be lifted over the head), it has gone on to plastic materials that look like human skin. The "gloves" on its artificial hands now bear fingerprints which must be registered with the FBI. Latest gimmick: putting a human-type pigment in the plastic, so that the hands, instead of turning green, retain their color even under fluorescent light...
...studying this principle as a cheap and easy way of putting a small, artificial satellite into an orbit around the earth. The rocket would have three stages, he says, but the whole thing need weigh only 13,500 lbs., and it could be carried up 15 miles by a plastic-film balloon of 3,000,000-cu.-ft. capacity (180-ft. diameter...