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...were making progress last week in their effort to give a normal brain covering to Rodney Dee Brodie, one of the 15-month-old Siamese twins who were born joined at the tops of their skulls. For the second time since the operation which separated them (TIME, Dec. 29), Plastic Surgeon Paul W. Greeley was busy with skin grafts. First, he had taken skin from Rodney's forehead and moved it back to cover part of the open brainpan. Now he set about taking skin from the baby's back to cover his forehead...
...again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...
...Plasti-Craft's streamlined XL-525, a 14-ft. Fiberglas-reinforced outboard runabout. Made of Owens-Corning Fiberglas and plastic, the hull needs no paint or calking (price: about $575). Other Fiberglas boats on display: Lunn Laminates' 18-ft. sloop, Challenger, Ray Greene & Co.'s 16-ft. sloop, Rebel...
...Lammot du Pont wrote his brother Pierre listing as "O.K." those G.M. units which were buying 100% of their paint, Fabrikoid (artificial leather) and Pyralin (plastic windows for side curtains) from Du Pont. Those who were not buying 100% were either classified under "good reason" or "no reason." Lammot added that Du Font's sales department "wouldn't mind seeing things going a little faster...
...High Heater. The U.S. Rubber Co. announced a new home-heating system which uses radiant-heating panels applied to the ceiling like wallpaper. Called Uskon, the panels are only iV in. thick, contain rubber sandwiched between thin layers of plastic and aluminum foil. Cost per 4-ft.-by-6-ft. panel, with thermostat: $40. Cost of installation for a two-story, three-bedroom house...