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Died. Games Slayter, 67, inventor of Fiberglas; of a heart attack; in Columbus. A recently retired vice president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Slayter developed a straw-thick glass fiber for air filters in 1931, after seven more years of research came up with the fine, flexible "glass wool" now used for everything from draperies to boat hulls, winning his company more than 130 lucrative patents...
...There are bound to be thick-heads," writes Paul McCartney in the introduction to In His Own Write, "Who will wonder why some of it doesn't make sense, and others who will search for hidden meanings... None of it has to make sense and if it seems funny then that's enough...
Later, about 50 dignitaries tried to squeeze into the five cars for the ride to the local fairgrounds. Disgusted, Murphy wound up walking all the way to the fairgrounds, slogging to the speakers' stand through thick clouds of desert dust while Mrs. Tucker, in full pursuit, began to remonstrate with him. At length, Hollywood Star Wendell Corey, who had arrived early only to disappear mysteriously, turned up in time to make a half-incoherent speech about "my good friend and that great American, George Muffin!-I mean Murphy...
...permeable substances (60 times more so than Teflon film), and General Electric Researcher Walter L. Robb, 36, had long known that it could be made to act like a membrane. Two years ago, Robb hit on a way to stretch the rubber into sheets 1/20,000th of an inch thick, set about trying to devise a way to eliminate the tiny holes that somehow showed up in each square foot of film. His solution was simple: since the probability of two holes being in the same spot on two sheets of film was remote, he laminated two sheets together, making...
...over oils are legion. Synthetic paint is cut with ordinary tap water instead of turpentine, thus has little or no smell and is nontoxic. Unlike oils, it dries in minutes and does not change color in the process. When dry, synthetic paint up to three-quarters of an inch thick bends readily without buckling or cracking, so that tomorrow's test-tube Titians may safely be rolled up for shipment...