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...Stevens' Kaycel, a tough blend of 93% cellulose and 7% nylon which is fire resistant unless washed. So great has been the demand that the company has had to put all Kaycel customers on rations; since there is not enough to go around, manufacturers are turning to Du Font's Ree-may, a "spunbonded" polyester, and are also using Kendall's Webril, a nonwoven rayon. Kaycel marketing experts calculate current expenditures for disposable goods made from Kaycel and similar materials at $50 million per year, think the figure could reach $300 million within five years...
...drug, Du Font's amantadine hydrochloride, is virtually the only medicine effective in preventing viral infections. Trade-named Symmetrel, it has been tested on more than 3,000 human subjects, and has shown remarkable effectiveness in protecting against Asian-A influenza. For an adult the effective dose of amantadine is 200 mg. a day, a tiny fraction of an ounce...
...would cheer him up if he'd lost a race; and everybody loved him so much that his owner, Mrs. Richard du Pont, gave him a mailbox at the barn to handle all the fan letters. Now nine, the magnificent gelding is taking his ease, jogging around Mrs.du Font's Maryland farm, treating her to early-morning canters like any other saddle horse...
...sporty car. It was originally dubbed the Banshee, but then someone had the bright idea of looking up the meaning of the word. The definition read: "In Gaelic folklore, a supernatural being whose wailing was supposed to foretell a death." Back to the christening font for that...
...standards have seeped into other areas of life; in effect, knowledge has become that which can be known by scientific study?and what cannot be known that way somehow seems uninteresting, unreal. In previous ages, the man of ideas, the priest or the philosopher was regarded as the font of wisdom. Now, says Jenkins, the sage is more likely to be an authority "trained in scientific methods of observing phenomena, who bases what he says on a corpus of knowledge built up by observation and experiment and constantly verified by further processes of practice and observation." The prestige of science...