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After a month of much squawking, which evidently surprised College officials no end, the once rigid, now plastic parietal rules may undergo yet another revision. The return of Saturday's afternoon privilege is a welcome concession. It is all the more welcome because whatever liberality moved it may prevent the restrictions on Saturday evening permissions the Housemasters Committee was threatening a few weeks...
...Plastic Carpet. At the Chicago Furniture Show, E. T. Barwick Mills displayed the first tufted plastic carpeting. Made of Saran, a Dow Chemical synthetic, the carpet is almost completely resistant to ink and other stains, can be washed to remove dirt, and is more resistant to wear than wool rugs. Cost...
...Eisenhower headquarters in New York's Commodore Hotel last week, Christmas jollity manifested itself chiefly in the bounding of plastic grasshoppers. An old and previously unnamed plaything, the toy grasshopper, which has springy metal legs and a rubber suction cup on its belly, was promptly christened "the Eisen-hopper" by fascinated newsmen. Introduced into Ike's offices by his old friend, Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, the Eisenhopper caught the President-elect's fancy. Talking business with serious-faced guests, Ike would casually press a hopper on to his desk, and roar with delight when, seconds later...
...watching over him the clock around. Also present, almost constantly, was Pediatrician Herbert J. Grossman, waiting to flag the surgeons when the time came to operate again. For the doctors were convinced that neither twin could get much better without a top to his brainpan (now closed lightly with plastic, metal foil and bandage). The longer the brain cavities remained unsealed, the greater the danger of a fatal infection. So far. neither of the babies was strong enough to face more surgery...
...Plastic Painkiller. Larson Laboratories of Erie, Pa. put on sale a spray-on plastic to make easier the removal of adhesive bandages. Squirted on the skin before tape is applied, the Adhesive Balm Spray (containing Monsanto's Santicizer No. 8) forms an antiseptic, stainless plastic film, later permits dressings to be peeled off with almost no pain to the patient...