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...shielded from water damage by mixing polystyrene with his pigments and coating the whole with transparent rubber (TIME, June 4). For the outside, he designed a large pool (see cut), in which reclines a giant sculpture of Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god. Rivera calls this "the first work of plastic art ever done to be seen from a helicopter...
...carelessly carry their Party membership cards stuffed into billfolds or handbags have frequently got themselves into trouble and long angered Party bosses. German Communist leaders finally had a bright idea: they directed that in future, Party membership cards must be carried in a specially designed bag made of transparent plastic, hung from the neck on a silk cord. A female comrade, reported by the Communist press to have protested that the new order seemed directed only at men, was assured that Communist women should also carry the bag, suspended between their breasts. Said Berlin Communist headquarters: "The highest document...
...ever heard of. Its name: the Tobey Maltz Memorial Foundation. Backed by four unidentified eastern businessmen, the foundation paid $1,100,000 in cash for a down payment, will pay the balance in ten to 15 years. The foundation is privately financed by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, 52, a gregarious plastic surgeon whose avocations have included play writing (The Unseen Scar) and an interest in black & white TV converters. Maltz says he set up the foundation to do medical research six years ago in memory of his mother who died of cancer...
...carried the balloons at 30 m.p.h. high over a line of low, dark hills on the horizon, where lay the Czech border. At 30,000 feet, the rubber balloons exploded, releasing thousands of leaflets. Another type of balloon, pillow-shaped, of glistening, translucent polyethylene, slowly oozed hydrogen through the plastic pores and sank to earth; it would give a ghostly effect as it bounced along the ground over hedges or lodged against walls and trees. On it, in five-inch letters, was printed the single word svoboda (Czech for "freedom"). Inside were more leaflets...
...Heaman hailed the new trays as "coming nearer to china" than the plastic mess trays recently used or the metal ones from right after the war. He defended the shallowness of the trays, saying that regular china also lacked depth...