Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metal is mainly used to plate the steel in so-called tin cans. Canning companies use tin because it resists corrosion that can be caused by acids often found in foods. Tin consumption, however, has been declining for years. More and more food is being packaged in sealed plastic pouches, and tin users are experimenting with such substitute materials as aluminum...
...electronics or warhead, but was the same size, shape and weight as an actual MX. At left, the missile is ejected from a canister by steam and gas pressure, a system adapted from submarine missile-launching devices. As the mock-up rises into the air, some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister, begin to fall off, as all are supposed to do. In the third picture, the missile, which reached an altitude of 325 ft., tilts back toward earth; it finally falls into a crater 140 ft. downrange. Exulted...
DIED. Arthur Barsky, 82, pioneering plastic surgeon who treated children injured in the Hiroshima atomic explosion and the Viet Nam War; near Le Beausset, France. Author of one of the first textbooks in his field and founder of plastic-surgery services in several New York City hospitals, Barsky led the team that treated the "Hiroshima maidens," 25 deformed A-bomb survivors who came to the U.S. for surgery. In 1969 he set up a 50-bed unit in Saigon and spent much of the next six years there helping to treat more than 7,000 children, grafting skin and restoring...
From the start, the Apple team did almost everything right. First they redesigned the prototype into a trim, spiffy model called Apple II. Jobs insisted that the cases for the keyboard and video display be made of light, attractive plastic instead of metal. They also wrote clear, concise instruction manuals that made the machine easy for consumers to use. Sales surged from $2.7 million in 1977 to $200 million...
...theoretical perfection." The camera's electronics and flash systems are powered by a new lithium battery that lasts for 2,000 exposures, easily the life of the camera. Most revolutionary of all is the revolving film pack. The new cameras use a thin, 2½-in. -diameter plastic disc that is priced at $3.19. The disc slips into the camera's hatched back and is turned by a motor for each of its 15 exposures...