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...wide variety of chemical compounds. One of the newest entries -used for many of the bright, nearly indestructible, solid-color pieces-is ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), from which football helmets are also made. Polyurethane, which can be used in varying consistencies as either soft filler or rigid outer shell, is increasingly used for chairs and couches. Other widely used materials are clear acrylics, like Plexiglas and Lucite...
...different approach to automotive safety, Volkswagen last week showed off what it calls an "Experimental Safety Vehicle." Longer and sleeker than the standard Beetle, the ESV's key feature is three-ply steel body construction. The outer ply is buttressed with extremely strong front and rear bumpers plus structural beams along the sides. The next ply is an impact-absorbing crumple zone; then a tough inner shell shields the passenger compartment. As a last line of defense, VW is also experimenting with a net that drops from the ceiling on impact to keep passengers from pitching against the dashboard...
...forced him into a car as he was about to enter his lawyer's New York City apartment building. According to a witness, one of the men said: "C'mon, Joe, my boss wants to see you." Bonanno must have had a long wait in the outer office. Nineteen months later, wearing a tan and the gray silk suit that he vanished in, Joe Bonanno walked unannounced into New York's federal courthouse and, with a straight face, said to a judge: "I understand that the Government would like to talk...
Grim Illusion. Listening from outer darkness, poor old Grendel is temporarily taken in, even though in his bones he knows men as murderers, life as meaningless. "It was a cold-blooded lie," he groans, "that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet . . . it came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it, yes! Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable." Grendel soon casts...
FROM San Diego to Seattle, the giant cargo ships bobbed idly in outer harbors, their flags announcing origins as distant as Japan and the Soviet Union. Inside their holds lay cargo amounting to hundreds of thousands of tons, some of it already spoiled, consigned to destinations all over the U.S. In all, some 150 freighters have been rendered a Pacific mothball fleet by a strike of 15,000 West Coast dock workers. Last week the walkout moved into its third month, and there seemed little hope of an early settlement. "It takes a month to get everything shut up tight...