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Ferdinando Innocenti, 71, is another who combines restless curiosity with shrewd economic sense. One day before World War II, Innocenti, then a small-time maker of steel pipe in Milan, bumped his head on a wooden scaffolding. This, in Da Vinci style, led him to develop the lightweight steel scaffolds now standard the world over. After the war, he bent his tubes into a motor scooter frame and, with his Lambretta, rode the crest of Italy's pent-up demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery...
...William Edward Vaughan, a floor-pacing, pipe-cleaning, book-thumbing, paper-clip-twiddling fidgeter, is already something of an anachronism. Vaughan writes "paragraphs" for the Kansas City, Mo.. Star (circ. 337,482); he practices a journalistic style so obscure that no one knows who invented it. So rare is the professional paragrapher that Vaughan is occasionally credited with being the last of the breed. He is not. But he is probably the best of a tiny handful of newsmen-among them the Cowles papers' Fletcher Knebel and Hearst's Bugs Baer-who still work...
...over the conventional piston-driven types. It weighs one-third less, has fewer moving parts (and thus causes less vibration), needs little overhauling, and can probably outlast an auto body. It requires no oil changes or Antifreeze, can use any kind of fuel that can be sent through a pipe and that will burn with air. "It will run beautifully on diesel fuel, peanut oil, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, furnace oil-or even French perfume," says Engineer George Huebner Jr., conjuring visions of service stations equipped with Chanel No. 5 atomizers...
...steel huts up close to the fire. From these, Gassi Touil roustabouts will spray water high into the air to form a cooling curtain for Adair and his men as they move in to attach hooks to the twisted remains of GT-2's rig and blown-out pipe, and winch the debris out of the way. Then a bulldozer will maneuver explosives on the end of a 200-ft. boom right up to the flames. If all goes right, the blast will snuff out the fire by momentarily interrupting the flow of gas and blowing away the oxygen...
...from alternative materials: aluminum is cutting into the auto market (the use of aluminum in cars has doubled since 1955 to an average 63 Ibs. on new models), prestressed concrete has won widespread use in the construction field, and steadily improving plastics are displacing steel in containers, furniture and pipe. Still a greater threat, steelmen insist, comes from imported steel. While they tend to exaggerate the foreign pressure, imports now take a steady 5% of the U.S. market and, confidently expecting to get more, Europe's hustling steelmakers are expanding capacities well beyond their own countries' needs...