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...space-age sealants, developed for caulking seams in spacecraft, now plug the gaps between bathroom tiles. Latex paints, developed as a protection against ultraviolet radiation, are being applied to home walls. Filament-wound plastics enable North American Car Corp. to make railway tank cars that weigh nine tons less than cars made of steel but are just as strong...
...June 6] travel his kind of first class. They may think they're treading in the master's Gucci-shod footsteps, but what it adds up to after the checks are spent is more like fatuous Frommer than fastidious Fielding. Just as Lucius Beebe and his private railway car made few if any sociological waves, so Fielding and his portable martini mixer are headed for inverted snobbism's dubious Hall of Fame. NORMAN READER Amagansett...
Trip by Intourist. Much of the frontier area is remote and desolate territory, seldom seen by outsiders except the most hardy tourists. There may be fewer of those in the future; last week Russia acknowledged that most of the Trans-Siberian Railway had been off limits to foreigners since June 1. The ban was presumably imposed to prevent non-Russians from viewing Soviet troop movements and military hardware along the border. On the following pages are rare, recent color photographs taken in the troubled border areas. They are the work of an enterprising Italian freelance photographer who, just prior...
...Trans-Baikal and Far Eastern military regions. These have recently been beefed up to full strength, and some reports suggest that new divisions have been added-bringing total estimated armed strength up to as many as 1,500,000 men. Most of these are concentrated along the Trans-Siberian Railway east of Irkutsk. In Mongolia, theoretically an independent republic, Soviet authorities have stationed up to 200,000 new troops under a defense treaty signed in 1966. Fighter planes, which can land almost anywhere on the flat Mongolian plateau, are scattered about the vast grasslands, housed in earthen shelters. Russia...
...Steer Palace, near the new Madison Square Garden, diners perch on the observation platforms of fake railway cars. At La Boufferie, waiters dressed in French sailor suits prance amongst the tables while, over the loudspeakers, Tiny Tim sings Tip Toe Through the Tulips...