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Proven Principle. On the same day, Esso Petroleum of Great Britain held an oil disposal demonstration at its Fawley refinery near Southampton. Technicians poured a barrel of crude oil on a pond, then covered the slick with a shredded polyurethane foam developed by J. Bibby & Sons of Liverpool. The foam quickly turned black as it absorbed the oil. The oil-soaked foam was then simply trapped and towed ashore, where Esso showed how the oil could be pressed out for reuse...
...jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...swimming pool-sized screen. At the same time, an oblong screen, 38 ft. high, confronts them at eye level. Sometimes Labyrinth uses the two screens to show off: a girl on the far screen throws a bit of bread away; it lands with a splash on the shimmering pond of the bottom screen. Most often it is employed to generate vertigo, as when a trapeze artist dangles above a crowd, or when two men have a highball-to-highball confrontation with a swiveling stripper...
...miniguns of the converted C-47s known as Puff the Magic Dragon. The Monitor and troop carriers opened up at almost point-blank range with their own 20-mm. and 40-mm. cannons and 81-mm. mortars. The Navy gunners even sent shells skipping off the surface of a pond in order to drop them onto enemy positions...
...galleries and fishing are two favorite relaxations: his penthouse apartment on Manhattan's East Side is decorated with paintings and drawings by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Vlaminck, and his twelve-room home in suburban Connecticut-built around a converted, 100-year-old schoolhouse-has a fresh-water pond containing a private stock of trout...