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...Graduate Peter Murdoch, is now on sale at Bloomingdale's, Neiman-Marcus and some 20 specialty shops. Made by the International Paper Co., the cylindrical-shaped chair consists of five layers of paper coated with a thin layer of plastic, is only one-sixteenth of an inch thick and weighs an incredibly light 3 Ibs. The chair will support up to 500 Ibs. Designer Murdoch claims that it is almost impossible to break. The throw-away price...
...million in military hardware, but nevertheless it intends to spend another $13.8 million in Asia this year for supplies that would take too long to come all the way from Stateside. Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese army, and the Japanese are providing nylon sandbags, barbed wire and prefabricated buildings. Taiwan is negotiating with the U.S. to supply mortar shells and machine...
...face was shielded by a mask; he wore a quarter-inch-thick black neoprene wet suit and two air tanks. Face down, he moved along, propelled by his boxer's legs. On the bottom were remains of three ships which sank there sometime during the fourth century. The ships' cargo, thirty stone coffins, was scattered around the site...
There are some disadvantages to the huge ships. In a thick fog, the skipper on the bridge may wonder where his bow is and what it is doing. Few harbors can handle the ships, although this matters little for tankers, since they can stand offshore while loading and unloading by pipeline. The Suez Canal is too small for the supertankers, and the shallow North Sea is not safe for ships drawing more than 56 feet, which is to say those larger than 200,000 tons. Insurance companies are fretful about "concentration of risk...
...studded essays on the whaling and sugar industries. He was at his best when he gave in to his sense of humor. Of lower-class Hawaiians traveling on an inter-island schooner, he reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid down on deck as thick as Negroes in a slave pen, and smoked and conversed and captured vermin and ate them, spit on each other, and were truly sociable." Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize...