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...G.I.s will have a new weapon against "human sea" attacks - the 4½-oz. M14 anti-personnel mine. The M14's vest-pocket size (diameter: 2½ in.; depth: i½ in.) and its inconspicuous color (khaki) will make the laying of invisible minefields quick and easy. Its plastic case safeguards it from discovery by mine detectors. The miniature mine's capacity for destruction is limited-it is unlikely to do serious damage to a vehicle-but Army tests indicate that it has enough power to blow off a foot soldier...
...family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone Elm, Kans. and buried him by the light of flashlights. Said Undertaker Boydstun: "The deal backfired...
Wearily, the surgeons closed the tops of the little skulls with plastic and aluminum foil, and after more than twelve exhausting, nerve-racking hours, the operation was over. For the first time in their lives, Roger and Rodney lay side by side. Seeing them wheeled from the operating room in separate cribs, Farmer Brodie said in a choking voice: "It sure looks good to see them apart...
...high velocity bullets have saved the lives of hundreds of G.I.s and marines in Korea. Last week both the Army and Marine Corps announced the development of another protective garment-armored shorts. Cut like boxers' shorts and constructed of twelve layers of laminated nylon duck encased in a plastic and nylon fabric, the Army's "lower torso armor" will weigh 4 lbs. (Weight of vest and shorts together: 12 lbs.). Marine Corps armored shorts, which weigh about a pound less than the Army version, have been in experimental use in Korea since early November. The reaction of marines...
Matarazzo also announced that he was ready to start building a new, ten-acre plant to make PVC (polyvinyl chloride), basis of such popular modern plastic products as raincoats, upholstering materials, wire insulation. To be built in partnership with B. F. Goodrich Co., the plant will be the first of its kind in South America. Typically, it is a natural outgrowth of another Matarazzo venture-a caustic-soda plant adjoining the site at São Caetano do Sul. "It is the Rolls-Royce of products," Count Matarazzo announced with finality...