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...wind lay still and a gentle swell replaced the usual nasty chop. The water temperature was 48°. While a schooner scouted a mile ahead for friendly currents, the cruiser King Bacardi stayed with him. Once each hour, as Thomas rested, his handlers fed him orange juice through a plastic tube, gave him cigarettes to puff...
...research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already passed Mach 1 in a climb, is expected to hit Mach 2 (1,520 m.p.h. at sea level...
...Plastic-Coated Plywood. Crown Zellerbach Corp. of San Francisco has developed a weather-resistant plastic sheet that can be heat-bonded to plywood and painted. The fungus-resistant plastic, called CreZon, will be sold in rolls to plywood manufacturers, is expected to make plywood a practical exterior building material under all conditions. It will add slightly to the cost of untreated, top-grade plywood...
Died. Max Pechstein, 73, leading German expressionist painter, lecturer at the Berlin Academy of Plastic Arts; in Berlin. A leader of pre-World War I German impressionists, Pechstein built an international reputation in the 1920s, was denounced as "decadent" by the Nazis, saw most of his canvases destroyed during the war, returned to Berlin afterward to repaint many of his early works from memory (TIME...
...PLASTIC PRICES will come down as the result of an 18% price slash on Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.'s vinyl resins (used for raincoats, upholstery, garden hose, etc.). With Italian vinyls selling in the U.S. for 32? a lb., Union Carbide was forced to cut its price from...