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Though CIA officials do not admit it publicly, the agency was from the start engaged in a wide range of "covert activities": espionage, aid to resistance movements and perhaps sabotage. Armed with all the traditional devices of espionage and a few 20th century improvements, such as plastic explosives and microfilm which can be sealed under the stamp on an envelope, CIA agents spread across the world. Covert activities have a vast glamour, and emphasis on them is effective public-relations policy...
POCKET Books, Inc. is getting ready to invade the phonograph-record business in September with a line of hit tunes on 7-inch, 45-and regular 78-r.p.m. plastic records that will sell...
SALES of non-corrosive plastic pipe have boomed so fast (3,000% since 1948) that Republic Steel last week bought pipemaker Owings-Sharpe, Inc. of Magnolia, Ark. Already widely used by mining, chemical and oil companies to carry corrosive fluids, plastic pipe is generally easier to install and cheaper to maintain than corresponding metal pipe. Sales, which reached $15 million last year, are expected to hit $250 million...
Curse of Drinks. For Northwestern University, Ott harnessed his cameras to a new-type microscope, took movies every six seconds of cancer cells multiplying as they fed on a saline-plasma solution. For the National Apple Institute, promoting apples for refreshment, he mounted a human tooth in plastic, kept two cameras on it for a year, taking shots every 2½^ hours as the tooth was bathed in a popular soft drink. Result: a movie of progressive tooth decay...
Adjustable Battery. Willard Storage Battery Co. announced that it will soon put on sale a new auto battery with a special plastic gadget to adjust the water according to the seasons. More water in summer cuts acid deterioration, the company said, and less water in winter gives the battery more...