Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with "Buy Nutsies" in mile-high letters of long-lasting, bright-colored smoke, the credit (such as it is) will go to Betty Lou Raskin. 36, a research associate at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. This week, at a Washington, D.C.. meeting of the American Society of Plastic Engineers, Miss Raskin unveiled the skywriters' dream weapon: "holey smoke" particles which are made of foam plastic and are so gossamer light that they hardly fall...
...petroleum oils. Even if their particles are only one micron (one twenty-five thousandth of an inch) in diameter, they fall through air at about eight inches per hour, which she considers too fast. Backed by the Air Force, Miss Raskin discovered a way to fluff various kinds of plastic into spherical particles that are mostly empty cells and almost as light as air. Miss Raskin's particles can be colored, and they fall 1,250 times slower than solid smoke particles of the same size. Collected in the form of a fine powder, eleven gallons of holey smoke...
...Writer-Director Richard Murphy (best known for the screenplay of Compulsion) make anything like the most of them. Still, he keeps his Ship scudding along as though it had somewhere to go, and he keeps the screen jumping with excitement: enemy planes, friendly minefields, men overboard, snipers in the plastic shrubbery. Above all, he keeps his camera trained on Funnyman Lemmon, who saves scene after scene with a pert piece of mugging, and hits the jackpot on any payoff line. Recipe for Hollywood producers : tee-hee is better with Lemmon...
...Army demonstrated a cheap ($30), light (4½ Ibs.) tank killer: a one-man bazooka with an expendable plastic firing tube. Each firing tube may be used several times, and a G.I. can carry at least five of its rocket charges. Every bit as powerful as the two-man, 20-lb., $175 bazooka it is meant to replace, the "XM-72 Rocket Grenade" is a companion piece for the foot soldier's 90-mm. recoilless rifle. Between the two, says the Army, ground outfits will have the antitank weapons they need. "We hope to issue them like hand grenades...
...Plastic Fences. Strips of woven Saran plastic to be interlaced between posts to make a translucent fence were put on sale by Weblite, Inc., Mineola, L.I. Colors are turquoise, green or white. Price for 50 ft. of 5-ft.-high fence, installed-yourself...