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...suddenly a new wave of Reds jumped the road, recapturing the ambush area and cutting off the rear guard. Bucking their way through in the darkness, the tanks reached the center of the ambush area, with hundreds of suicidal Viet Minh swarming aboard with potato-masher stick grenades and plastic explosive charges. Some Viet Minh threw themselves under the grinding treads with armfuls of explosives. Six armored halftracks were destroyed and their crews slaughtered...
...quick-setting liquid plastic (aero-plast), sprayed from an aerosol bomb, makes a better dressing for wounds, and especially burns, than Vaseline gauze. It keeps body fluids in and keeps dirt and germs out; it seldom needs changing, and its transparency lets the surgeon look at the wound as often as he wants. Best of all, it can be applied by unskilled hands, so it can be kept handy in front-line aid stations, civil-defense posts, airplanes and crash ambulances...
...this year are plastic cap rifles ($2.98 to $4). Yo-yos come shaped like basketballs, footballs and baseballs. For electric train buffs, there is a new signal tower; when the train goes by, one man pops out, another climbs down the ladder waving his flag at motorists...
...little girls, Pressman Toy Corp. has a vanity table with ruffled plastic skirt, which comes complete with bench, mirror, comb & brush, and perfume atomizer...
...twelve blocks for $5.95). Radio hams can assemble their own crystal sets ($2.50). One of the best bargains for budding mechanics: the plas tic "Fix-It" automobile. Its battery, radi ator and gas tank can all be filled; wheels can be removed with the help of a minia ture plastic jack and other tools. Price...