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...make much of a pet, but it has about all the other qualities of Al Capp's famous Shmoo. It is crushed into edible oils for cooking and salads and into livestock feed. It goes into antiknock gasoline, linoleum, chocolate candy bars, and helps make fire extinguishers foam...
...ruptured tanks. The Pentagon and the FAA are experimenting with "tough wall" tanks made of nylon and polyurethane; when a tough-wall helicopter was slammed against a jagged rock at 100 Gs, the crash left only a one-eighth-inch crack. Airlines are also experimenting with a fire-resistant foam, which would automatically flood the fuselage after a crash and protect the passengers...
...less severe camp. Since neither man is especially robust, long hours spent chopping trees and doing other heavy outdoor labor under sub-zero winter conditions could prove fatal. As far as Pravda, Tass and Izvestia were concerned, that would hardly be too harsh for what Tass described as "dirty foam brought up by the turbulent stream of life...
Stability, light weight and low cost are the small boatman's criteria. In dinghies, Chapman Yates leads the fleet with its new 8-ft. 3-in. Hydro-Pram, available for either sail ($465) or outboard ($250). Because of a thick bottom layer of polyurethane foam, it will not capsize with a 145-lb. boy standing on its gunwale, nor sink when filled with water and two beefy men. Total weight: 90 lbs. Lighter still is the 10-ft. 4-in. Swift, George O'Day's bid for a slice of the sailboard market. Only...
Inside the briefcase, cradled in foam rubber, the reels of a tape recorder silently begin to turn. Then, reaching up his sleeve, he pulls out the tip of a 16-in. long microphone gun, shelters it with his palm and points it at the stage. In the orchestra seats, a woman wraps her program around a slender microphone, switches on a tape recorder hidden in her bulky handbag, and settles back...