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Last week bright-eyed Freddie was at the institute again. Dr. Kessler had decided that his trunk muscles had developed enough for him to be fitted with his first pair of legs. Made of plastic, the legs are only thigh-length (usual for learners), and held to Freddie's body by a corset-like harness. The toes of the stumps point backward for better balance. A simple screw adjustment made by the nurse or mother makes the legs flex so that Freddie can sit down...
...Armalon, a tough new plastic for upholstering trucks, buses, sponge rubber furniture. In tests, the springs beneath it wore out before the coating cracked...
...best way to get rid of acne scars, Plastic Surgeon William G. McEvitt of Detroit announced last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
...thought. The practice slope had been gradual and smooth, with the sun melting a glaze on the snow. Vag had snapped his brand-new bindings shut, listening to the satisfactory double click as they went into place. Then he had squared his shoulders, hunched forward, adjusted his special plastic goggles, and pushed off down the hill. He had been near the bottom snow-plowing when something gave. Then he was lying on his side with his left ski pointing the wrong...
...chipper: "When I go home I want peace & quiet more than food. If my kids make a racket, I feel like whipping 'em right away." Hargrave, who wears an inconspicuous hearing aid, believes that much ear damage could be prevented if workers on noisy jobs would wear plastic ear plugs...