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...blurs on his ballistocardiograms every time a streetcar rumbled by eight floors below. To cushion out such vibrations, researchers have turned to various systems of floating the body-strapped to a board-in a pool of mercury or (Dr. Starr's choice) on a foot-thick pile of nylon blankets...
...right-but are willing to pay any price to get it. Nearly 30% of the regular Falcon's customers, for example, insist on a 100-h.p. engine instead of the standard 85-h.p.; 50% want white sidewalls, 68% want the "trim kit"-extra chrome on the outside, pleated nylon on the inside...
...take garbage and make it acceptable to people in the street," Tarashinsky explains. "We take a nylon parachute and dissect it just like a butcher takes a cow apart. We use it all." In late 1959, Tarashinsky bought 200,000 surplus ammunition cans from the Army for 12? apiece. He found few takers until he discovered that the handles tilted to make an excellent shoe rest, so he peddled them as shoeshine stands, sold 196,000 to one customer for 20? apiece. "I'm known as the king of the ammo cans," says Tarashinsky...
...Nylon Pirates, Monsarrat...
...Nylon Pirates, Monsarrat...