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...Mittens of foam rubber, fitted over obstetrical forceps, have cut down both the number and severity of injuries to babies' skulls during delivery, Dr. Emanuel Greenberg of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital reported. He now recommends the soft mittens for a variety of surgical instruments whose steel edges may damage parts of a patient's anatomy...
Fire trucks with foam crews screamed to the crippled plane. Said big Joe Donnelly, who had been construction superintendent on the 707 for two years: "Well, that's that." Then he shook himself and added definitely: "She's still a good airplane...
MONSANTO CHEMICAL is going into business with German chemists to make a new plastic substitute for foam rubber. With Germany's Farbenfabriken Bayer A.G., Monsanto will build a plant in the U.S., turn out the new chemicals (isocyanates) to make foam plastics for mattresses and upholstery...
...Studebaker Corp.'s Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, who arranged for trial spins in Studebakers, orated on their good qualities. Last week Secretary Weeks finally gave in and signed up for the works: a black, four-door Land Cruiser with power steering, automatic transmission, radio, white-wall tires, and foam-rubber upholstery covered with blue nylon...
Woman's world is giving the sanitary engineers still further challenges. The garbage disposer ("mechanical pig") built into kitchen sinks is overloading city-sewage systems. And the fancy new detergents used in automatic dishwashing gum up the treatment plants: they foam crazily and resist chemical breakdown. This problem of wastes is where the sanitary engineers came in, thousands of years ago. Ahead of them are more turns of the same spiral...