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...Arbor, Mich. (P.O. Box 54), has produced the Bubble Tent, which can be zipped effortlessly into place in H min. flat. Carried in an 8-ft. tube attached to the station-wagon rack, it pulls out in one move, pops open like an umbrella, stays aloft by means of fiber glass poles, and sleeps four in airy, mosquito-proof comfort. Cost...
...group of New York City researchers have been looking for the answer in test tubes containing nerve fibers growing in a nutrient solution. At Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Murray B Bornstein and Dr. Stanley H. Appel found that if serum from MS patients, or from animals with a similar disease, was added to the solution, the myelin "insulation" was dissolved. Serum from healthy people or animals had no such effect. With Columbia University's Dr Stanley M. Crain, Dr. Bornstein then tested the electrical connections between cells within the nerve fiber. Serum from MS patients, the doctors found, inactivates...
...ducted 7-ft. fans that the X-22A uses as props are a futuristic blend of modern metallurgy and plastic engineering-fiber-glass blades with steel cores and nickel edges. The power behind those fans is a Rube Goldberg blend of engineering-four turbojet engines feeding a total of ten different gearboxes. The barrel-like ducts, along with their -big props, can be rotated by separate hydraulic motors. With the ducts horizontal and the props pointing forward, the X-22A should be capable of more than 300 m.p.h. in level flight; with ducts rotated to a vertical position, the ship...
...most difficult part in the play is that of the cat mehitabel (Anne Bernstein), mehitabel is the kind of plucky creature whose realism and illusions are made of identical indestructible fiber. As surely as she recognizes that her guts will soon be fiddle strings, she believes that she was Cleopatra in a previous incarnation. She drowns her children, but in such a charming way. Miss Bernstein's mehitabel is so unambiguous that insights about her seem surprisingly unincisive, but still, her performance is good, for it is both believable and attractive...
Last week he returned from Bulgaria after closing a deal in which Krupp will equip and manage a $25 million synthetic fiber plant. Krupp also signed a contract recently to build a cement plant in Yugoslavia, has made a deal to sell diesel-powered fishing boats to Bulgaria, and is holding talks with the Polish, Hungarian and Rumanian governments about machine-tool and other plants...