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...items (chosen from a record 6,000 entries) ranged from preserve jars to crystal goblets, from plastic leaf rakes to automatic dishwashers. Most of them had bold, simple shapes; there were corkscrews and clothes hangers that might be mistaken for modern abstract sculpture. Cheap-looking plastic was disguised or dressed up, e.g., by pressing interesting-looking cloth weaves in plastic sheets. Furniture seemed more solid than in previous years, with more contrasting materials, e.g., brass and marble, and more expensive woods. Example: an oblong conference table in which eight pieces of walnut were matched perfectly to produce a flamelike pattern...
...Conditioned Paint. A bright white paint that substantially reduces the temperature of metal and asphalt roofs in hot weather is being marketed by Coating Laboratories, Inc., of Tulsa. "Koolcote," which consists of four special pigments mixed with "activated" plastic, has kept a metal tank at a temperature of 99½° in tests during 100½° outside temperatures (v. 143° for a tank not Koolcoted). Price: about 6? per sq. ft. for steel surfaces, $150 for the average roof...
Farm Boy Holt built his first (5?) model at the age of six. Since then he has been working toward bigger projects. A few weeks ago he had the idea of refueling his latest model through a plastic tube running up the control wire. With help from older fans, he fitted the model with an extra gas tank and rigged the plastic tube...
...adding to its three existing lines a sports model, with 170-h.p. engine and a light metal frame and body, to be priced somewhere between the Special and Super models. Chevrolet and Pontiac have kept their new looks top secret, but production of the Chevrolet's fiber-glass plastic sports car, the Corvette (160 h.p., 102-in. wheel base, 2,900 Ibs.), will be boosted to thousands...
...arrive at his style? "Well, in the mystical world the logical order of nature can be destroyed, and this is a source of unlimited possibilities. For example, I did not feel it necessary to use clouds as supports for the figures. The musical instruments I made transparent, like plastic. And since saints radiate light, I painted them so-not just with halos...