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...Carborundum"-assembly-line Latin for "Don't let the bastards wear you down." Then, draping a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth, he rang a buzzer twice and an aide, Marine Colonel Carey Randall, appeared in the office doorway. Said Charlie Wilson, looking up over the plastic rims of his glasses: "Let's get to work...
...jutting from a rounded body. Says O'Hanlon: "It's not that I'm crazy about birds particularly-I'm interested in all nature. I've just chosen the bird as a symbol. I'm really concerned with form, and birds offer wonderful plastic possibilities." Brought up in a remote part of the Sierra Madre foothills, O'Hanlon could hardly help being interested in nature...
...Gibbon was satisfied at last with both the heart and lung sections of his machine. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Hospital, Cecelia Bavolek was anesthetized and Dr. Gibbon, with two assisting surgeons, laid bare her heart. They opened the two large veins carrying blood to it, and slipped in plastic tubes which drained the blood away to the artificial heart-lung. There, one pump drew in the blood. Another speeded it to an oxygen chamber, where it flowed over a set of metal grids like the plates in a storage battery. Electronic controls kept the flow rate just right, made...
...fast-growing plastics industry, the fastest grower of all is a leathery, translucent material with a tongue-twisting name: polyethylene. Because "poly" is shatterproof, it is ideal for practice golf balls, "squeeze bottles" for deodorants and cosmetics, and cups, plates and saucers. Because it remains flexible even at low temperatures, it is fine for ice-cube trays and refrigerator containers; because it is acid-resistant, it is used in photo-developing tanks and piping for chemical plants. In ten years, U.S. output of poly has increased almost twenty fold, to 125 million Ibs. ; plastics men predict that...
High-Pressure Lure. With these bright prospects, Union Carbide and Du Pont (which calls its plastic polythene) will soon have new competition from Texas Eastman, Dow, and probably National Petro-Chemicals, Spencer Chemical, and Monsanto. The two leaders, however, already have a big head start and valuable experience in poly production, which involves ultra-high pressures (equal to the pressure in the barrel of a 5-in. Navy antiaircraft gun when it is fired). Says Bakelite's President Bunn: "We have the lead and we intend to keep...