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...Well then, you can start by checking my kit. But first put these boots on for me. I think I'll use those darker, rather tired ones there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Pour Tout | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

Concludes Manufacturer Cutter (which gets $32.91 for a r-gm. injection kit, leaves the service markup to the discretion of the hospital): "We wanted to explain the high cost of the product, even if we could not make the bill any easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The High Cost of Clotting | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Sweet Sue Evans (Dot LP). Songstress Evans, a onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...voltage kicks to moving ions (charged particles), Lawrence calculated that they could be made to whirl progressively faster in a closed chamber, reaching great speed and high voltages. They could then smash atoms and transmute elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Hard Worker | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Pipe Patcher. A repair kit to plug holes in pipes, boilers, etc. was put on sale by Devcon Corp. of Danvers, Mass. Key material is a mixture of 80% steel and 20% plastic which sets under heat in 60 seconds or less. Holes up to ¼ in. in diameter can be repaired without turning off the pressure. A woven-glass-tape bandage is included for laminating a larger opening. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Products, Jul. 14, 1958 | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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