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...Aurora's 1960-model electric-powered cars. Scaled down to 2 in. in length, the cars can be raced around a miniature track, need a deft touch on the controls to keep them from flipping over. Gilbert makes a bigger, stock-car racing set. Sales of multi-detailed plastic hobby kits are burgeoning, enable boys and girls to produce in miniature everything from auto engines to a transparent Visible Woman, complete with interchangeable parts for pregnancy...
...tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer A. Tomlinson of New York, self-styled "King of the World," whose self-coronation in Dar-es-Salaam. Tanganyika, with the aid of a plastic terrestrial globe, was witnessed by an awed Waugh-the fictioneer outdone by the actually absurd...
Britain's famed 18th century plastic surgeon John Hunter once summed up his professional philosophy in a single curt phrase: "Why not try?" Today's reputable plastic surgeon is less impetuous. Aware that he often operates within surgery's twilight zone-past the point of obvious physical need-he is inclined to weigh his would-be patients' motives. For advice in sticky cases, he may turn to a psychiatrist. Members of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently did just that when they invited Dr. Wayne E. Jacobson of the University of California...
...Some plastics, Snyder admitted, will surely be weakened by the ultraviolet light that abounds in space. But others may actually be strengthened. He explained that ultraviolet does its damage by breaking the plastic's molecular chains and permitting oxygen and other gases to attach themselves to the broken ends, thus making the break permanent. In space this will not happen. The loose ends of chains broken by ultraviolet will usually find no gases to combine with. They are free to recombine with other loose ends, giving the plastic a strong, cross-braced structure...
...third building will house a two-level restaurant; the spacious second- story mall will contain a skating rink and outdoor swimming pool, with a bowling alley and parking for 3,000 cars underneath. In cold-weather months, the rink and pool will be covered by a blue-tinted plastic roof held up by air pressure...