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Sibley's demands were as unusual as his methods. Besides $2,000,000 in $20 and $50 bills and $8,000 worth of gold bars-the highest ransom ever demanded in the U.S.-he insisted upon items ranging from three Thompson submachine guns and 300 feet of nylon rope to ammonia inhalers, smelling salts, pep pills and sleeping pills. Once the passengers were off the plane, it flew to Vancouver, B.C. Told that that much U.S. currency was not on hand in Vancouver, Sibley ordered the plane to Seattle. En route, he handed the crew a four-page statement...
...catch the vampires for their fatal treatment, the bat killers suspend, above the fence of a cattle corral, a Japanese nylon mist net, as fine as a lady's "invisible" hair net. The net is invisible in the dark when the bats sortie and, more important, its fine threads give back no detectable echo for the vampire's sonar system. When a bat is netted, a technician wearing tough leather gloves carefully removes it from the net and rubs its back with half a teaspoonful of petroleum jelly laced with 50 milligrams of diphenadione...
Outside the U.S., however, various kinds of synthetic ski surfaces have been more successful. A 400-meter nylon-covered ramp at Edinburgh's Hillend Ski Center is jammed with people during the winter months; so are the chloride-vinyl ski jumps and slalom courses of Tokyo's Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici...
...much as 400% in the past five years, mostly in sales of improved gear, which makes it possible for a hiker to hit the trail without lunging and stooping with the weight of an old-style canvas rucksack on a wooden frame. Now he can sport a rip-proof nylon bag and an aluminum or magnesium carrier, which -j have shaved down the weight of an av! erage unloaded pack from 12 Ibs. to 2 Ibs. In addition, the pack frame is orthopedically contoured to distribute the weight of the load along the bones that can bear it best. This...
...three-man 7-lb. tent made of "breathable" nylon, complete with rain fly and poles...