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...family's clothes are probably dry-cleaned with Du Pont Perclene, waterproofed with Zelan, bleached with Oxone. Their food comes in packages that are glued together with Elvacet and wrapped in Mylar, stored in a refrigerator cooled by Freon and cooked on a greaseless griddle coated with Teflon. Their car may be finished with Lucite, their furniture lacquered with...
Back to St. Louis went the Cardinals, to a tumultuous welcome at the airport, a sellout crowd at Busch Stadium ("Spell that Bush," growled one Yankee)-and the biggest collection of noisemakers and freon horns ever assembled west of the Mississippi. But the Yankees still had to be shown, jumped on five Cardinal pitchers for ten hits and an 8-3 victory. Once again the Series was all even, and now everything-$8,400 for the winners, $5,200 for the losers-was riding on the seventh game...
...Hercules Powder Co., has new fuel, too, and 1,500 lbs. more of it. The casing, already of glass fiber in the A2, has been improved by a new lining to protect it from the new fuel's greater heat. Instead of nozzles for steering, it uses liquid Freon injected into the side of the gas stream...
...Polaris is equipped with nozzles that have no obstructions and no moving parts. For directional control, a small amount of freon gas is shot into the side of the hot exhaust stream, deflecting it just as if the nozzle had been turned. The system is light, and since it is not exposed to high heat or pressure, it is potentially trouble-free. Many missilemen are confident that solid-propellant rockets, already an important U.S. specialty, will be even more valuable when brief blasts of freon are used to twitch their fiery tails...
...know that animal fats break down during cooking and give off eye-irritating chemicals, so ship's cooks use vegetable fats instead of lard. Bleaches are forbidden in the ships' laundries; they release chlorine that would contaminate the atmosphere. Aerosol shaving creams are prohibited because of their Freon gas. Ship's doctors must guard their clinical thermometers carefully; if broken, their mercury might evaporate into deadly fumes. But as important as the air itself is the attention to the inner man: Patrick Henry's Gold crew is happier than its Blue crew simply because...