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In the fast-growing plastics industry, the fastest grower of all is a leathery, translucent material with a tongue-twisting name: polyethylene. Because "poly" is shatterproof, it is ideal for practice golf balls, "squeeze bottles" for deodorants and cosmetics, and cups, plates and saucers. Because it remains flexible even at...
This week Union Carbide & Carbon's Bakelite Co. brought the prediction closer to reality. President Howard S. Bunn announced the biggest single expansion program in the history of the plastics industry. The company will spend some $100 million on three new poly plants (in Texas City and Seadrift, Texas...
Roly-poly Prime Minister Nazimuddin of Pakistan was leaving by the 5:30 train. The red carpet had been rolled out through Karachi station, but before Nazimuddin could put foot on it, he was called to the phone: Governor General Ghulam Mohammad had news for him. The news:
In men's golf, as Lightweight (139 lb.) Ben Hogan has proved again & again, a good little man can outhit a good big one. In women's golf, it seems quite the other way: the bigger they are, the harder they hit. By far the biggest of the...
"I never believe anything until it happens," says Mattiwilda Dobbs. But she is already scheduled to sing the big coloratura role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival next summer. Her records of Mozart's Zaide (Poly-music) and Bizet's Pearl Fishers (Renaissance...