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...last August, he has hardly let a day pass without some kindness. Recently he gave the union the rambling old presidential palace on downtown Calle Suipacha-unused since President Ramon Castillo's overthrow in 1943-for a clubhouse. To notable girl athletes he gives a standard present: a plastic vanity case with $36 inside...
...Hopkins and N. S. Kapany in Britain and A.C.S. van Heel in The Netherlands have copied this system by binding transparent fibers (glass or plastic) into compact bundles. When a lens forms an image on one end of the bundle, each fiber transmits a small part of it to the other end, where it shows as a pattern of bright dots, one from each fiber. The bundle can be bent into sharp curves, but the image follows it faithfully without losing its sharpness. If poked into a human stomach, it could give an insect-eye view of anything there...
General Motors this week rolled out the most Buck Rogersish automobile ever to come out of Detroit, its experimental XP-21 Firebird (see cut). The plastic-bodied Firebird closely resembles Douglas' supersonic F4D Skyray, with its sweptback delta wings (for stability), its vertical tail fin, and plastic bubble enclosing the driver's seat. Behind the driver's seat, the Firebird has a gas turbine engine, the first in a U.S. car. The small, kerosene-burning engine drives a turbine that transmits power directly to the wheels...
...industry and a prime example of the trend toward automatic factories. For Columbia, it means that skilled press operators no longer need go through six steps to make a record. The new machine does the job in an uninterrupted flow; it automatically feeds the right amount of plastic into a mold, cools it, and ejects the records. Each of the machines costs $25,000 (v. $3,000 for an old-style press), but they make better records about 30% faster, and four men can watch over the entire operation...
...Willys Motors announced a new two-passenger sports car, the Kaiser Darrin 161, designed by Howard A. Darrin, who has done cars for Packard and Lincoln as well as custom cars for Rita Hayworth and Errol Flynn. Like Chevrolet's Corvette, the Darrin 161 has a plastic body that weighs but 300 lbs. (total weight: 2,175 lbs.). Powered by a six-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine, it has six forward speeds and doors that slide into the front fenders instead of opening outward. Factory list price...