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...seemed well. At 19,000 feet she was well above the overcast, and the T.W.A. ship was pressurized for the comfort of 21 passengers and the crew. In a couple of hours the moon would be up. Navigator George Hart climbed into the astrodome, a transparent plastic bubble atop the fuselage, and started to shoot the stars with his sextant...
...enthusiastic doctor-delegate cried: "Say, this is a damn sight more important than some of the scientific papers." The big hit at a recent Pittsburgh convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics was a new kind of nursing bottle-a plastic job that seems to eliminate a few of the nuisances of baby-raising, including burps and constant bottle-boiling. The new bottle comes already sterilized, feeds the baby his milk without air, can be thrown away after one feeding...
...bottles" are tubes of paper-thin, transparent plastic (cost: half a cent each). They are packaged as a roll of sterile tubing, sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...
...geologists know little about the underground conditions responsible for Paricutin. It lies in the "Michoacan volcanic province," dotted with old, dead craters. The whole region may be resting on a "batholith," an enormous mass of "magma" or hot, plastic rock. More likely, Paricutin gets its lava from a smaller "local chamber" of molten basalt which gnawed its way toward the surface until it finally broke through. If the underground lava supply is large enough and active enough, Paricutin may grow as tall as 17,876-ft. Popocatepetl, 200 miles to the east...
...clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last a lifetime...