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...journey, Skipper Carlin spent three years writing about his early adventures (Half Safe, William Morrow & Co., Inc. $5) and refitting his ship. He lengthened her sloping superstructure fore and aft, thickened her neoprene waterproofing, beefed up her fuel capacity. Interior steel fittings were replaced with aluminum and plastic until the craft was 600 Ibs. lighter. All told, the Half Safe weighed 3½ tons with a full cargo; every spare inch was filled with equipment−radio, stove, water jugs, oil cans, camera film, cans of food and dirty laundry...
...Plastic Steel." U.S. Steel Corp. put on limited sale steel sheets coated with decorative, pliable vinyl plastic. The premium-priced sheets can be stamped directly into finished parts for automobiles, appliances, furniture and other products that now are cast, then enameled. By eliminating finishing, overall costs are cut. U.S. Steel foresees "plastic steel" automobiles with simulated white morocco or tan cowhide finish...
...caucus. At San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a special TV crew will lie in continuous wait for Harold Stassen. ¶ The networks have also marshaled a crew of caterers, cooks, maids, helicopter pilots, chauffeurs for VIPs, commercial plane pilots and swimming-pool attendants (for NBC's plastic pool built especially to revive numbed delegates and newsmen). Betty Furness gets a whole new kitchen this year from Westinghouse (which is picking up a $5,000,000 tab for CBS for convention-through-election-night coverage), and a security guard to beat off the hungry. A recording company will...
Comfortably sipping a victory martini out of one of his galley's plastic cups, Skipper Geib sounded off with pride, "This is a helluva boat," and flung a challenge to the current hot boat on the saltwater circuit. Bermuda Racewinner Finisterre. Said he: "What with Finisterre and Figaro, a lot of people are saying that the day of the keel boat is over-that the centerboarders are the new thing. I'd like to see Finisterre come out here and race on the Great Lakes. I think we could give her a run for her money. Sure, bring...
...Marble Orchard is a deliberately zany book, and Novelist Boylen's bizarre theme is as difficult to sustain as Lovey's pretense of blindness; at times, the writing is as stiffly convoluted as a plastic funeral wreath. It is, nevertheless, a sprightly blend of social satire and comedy -and an engaging record of a Tomboy Sawyer's struggle to find her bearings in the nincompoop latitudes...