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...A.A.F.'s Wright Field laboratories: a solar still, now widely used on life rafts, which distills sea water by the sun's heat in a transparent plastic bag, produces a pint of fresh water a day on a sunny...
...they talked me into it." In the gymnasium a muscular Negro happily plays basketball while his attendant waits (only a couple of weeks ago, he had to be held down by five men to be forcibly fed). Outside, other NPs (neuropsychiatric patients) and men with the new scars of plastic surgery drill with 50-lb. dumbbells...
...which few unarmed civilians dared to venture. One chilly dawn British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie ordered tanks to take the ELAS and KKE (Greek Communist Party) headquarters on Constitution Square. A Sherman tank smashed into one building; airborne troops entered the other with the aid of new plastic explosives. The committees were captured, but not communist Secretary George Siantos...
...Clothes Modern?" jeers at the world and his wife for wearing symmetrical shoes on unsymmetrical feet, for walking on the punishing pavements of cities when resilient plastic composition would carry weary legs twice as far, for not wearing toga-like clothes-the only truly modern costume, which can flow from machinery like newspapers from presses...
...Plastic Wedding. The silicones are a new type of plastic-an unusual wedding of organic and inorganic chemistry. Organic plastics have poor resistance to heat and cold; at extreme temperatures they become brittle or soft. This fault is overcome in the silicones by replacing the carbon atoms in organic compounds with a much tougher combination of silicon (basic ingredient of sand) and oxygen. The result is a material combining the flexibility of plastics with great resistance to heat, water and air. Some silicones can withstand temperatures from 60 below zero Fahrenheit to 575 above...