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¶ Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc. and Texas-U. S. Chemical Co., which jointly bought the big (197,000 tons yearly) plant at Port Neches, Texas. Each company also bought a smaller polymer plant at Port Neches. (Cost of the three plants: $94,347,000; book value: $28,999,000.)
Too Big to Be Good? Today, Laborites in Britain think I.C.I, has grown too big for its own good and should, of course, be nationalized. Part of the reason is that I.C.I, has always tended towards monopoly and never made any bones about it. Its longtime boss, Lord McGowan (TIME...
Painter Zerbe set out to find a new medium. The answer was polymer tempera, a plastic mixture developed by one of Zerbe's former students at the Boston Museum's art school. Polymer tempera is made by mixing polyvinyl acetate, a bland white plastic (which is also used...
The critics were pleased, and so was Zerbe. He has not yet tried mixing his paints with rose water, uranium or pâté de foie gras, and, for the time being, at least, he intends to stick to polymer tempera.
Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute...