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Rubber & Reflections. When the mural is half submerged, the protoplasmic life painted on the floor will waver greenly and the figures along the walls will stand reflected upside down in the pool. To protect his work from the water, Rivera has mixed a plastic called polystyrene with his fresco pigments, plans to varnish the whole with transparent rubber...
...Lust. This time Mailer's jungle is asphalt instead of tropical. Penned in the stuffy cubicles of a Brooklyn rooming house are some of the wrecks and the wreckers of contemporary society. Mock hero of the piece is Michael Lovett, an ex-G.I. with a remade plastic face and a blacked-out memory, the author's symbol for the crippled common man. A writer, "Mikey" Lovett tries to grasp the haunted, hunted relationships around him. Soon he finds that he and the other occupants are stuck together with the glue of lust and politics...
...from black to white and, gradually, back to black again, simply by reversing the polarity (i.e., changing a positive picture to a negative picture) on the camera. The falling and rising water pail was more complicated. A tiny pail the size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which the background was painted. By reversing the disc, the pail seemed to fall up or down; by stopping both disc and drum, the pail seemed to stop in midair. Garroway's "girl multiplier" is still...
Processing in the compact, portable machine is carried out in a closed system from the vein of the donor to the final plastic containers for the blood components. It was engineered for use in hospital donor centers or under emergency conditions...
degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh while working at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. At the institute, Reid did research for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss...