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...current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
...months, is not really old enough. So he quickly lost interest in England's annual Badminton Horse Trials and began wandering. Pretty soon he spotted the mud-covered straw that was spread around because of the rain and got a great idea. He tossed a handful of the gooey stuff at a kind-looking lady standing near by. The kind-looking lady turned out to be Queen Mother Elizabeth. She was surprised and laughed politely, but she didn't move away. So he threw a couple more handfuls. Then someone stopped him, and Charles Race had to think...
Stealing Oil. Among those changing worlds is the northeastern "Blacklands" area, which runs roughly south from the Oklahoma border through Dallas and Waco. There the once aristocratic cotton-plantation society has deteriorated. The gooey black clay that attracted some of the state's first permanent settlers is no longer fertile. Farmers are fleeing to the big cities, their lands taken over by a few big cattle operators who strip the fields, turn it back into pasture, graze huge herds. This is where such oil millionaires as H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson and the Murchisons hit big money...
Stinking Copra. Last week a crew of six San Francisco longshoremen finished the nine-day job of unloading 7,000 tons of stinking, oil-laden copra from the Liberty ship Silvana. A tracked vehicle pried the gooey cargo from the holds, hoisted it into a vacuum tube that shot it into a conversion plant. A few years ago 18 men would have worked two weeks to unload the Silvana...
...public buildings with electrified grids, netting, dummies of cats or snakes, and supersonic howls. They might as well have put up a sign, "No Pigeons Allowed"-which is said apocryphally to have happened in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. The most effective columbifuge so far seems to be a gooey chemical trade-named Roost-No-More, which is smeared on the cornices of buildings. It gives the pigeons a mild hotfoot, and they avoid its smell...