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Safety in Diversity. Philip Morris Inc. (Marlboro, Parliament, Alpine) has already begun hedging against possible loss of cigarette sales by diversifying. Some 20% of its business last year was in razor blades (Pal, Gem), flexible packaging and polymer chemicals. P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Old Gold, Newport, York) recently obtained permission...
The graphic arts were very little in evidence in this year's exhibit. Twenty-nine sculptors had works shown, but these were of lower quality than usual. One especially intriguing item, though, was Richard Boyce's "Fall of Icarus," made of steel, polymer, and ivory. And the Festival's over...
The glue is mixed at the operating table by adding a catalyst to a pre-polymer, which then becomes a plastic (Ostamer) that hardens in a few minutes in the bone marrow. Then the wound is covered with a dry, sterile dressing. What makes the glue particularly effective is that...
Dr. Urey still thinks that the clouds in the Venusian atmosphere may be made of water droplets like clouds on earth, but few astronomers agree with him. Dr. Kuiper thinks they are made of fine dust particles of carbon suboxide (0302). In an attempt to prove this theory, he made...
Despite its proneness to bluntness, the Air Force last month successfully fired a Thor-Able missile with a faster-flying new nose of the type developed by the Army on its Jupiter IRBM. This one is more classically sharp. Instead of absorbing and avoiding heat, it removes heat by "ablation...