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Bulletproofed? The first tubeless, puncture-sealing automobile tire was put on the market. The tire, made by B. F. Goodrich Co., fits tightly enough to the rim to hold air. A gummy layer under the tread, similar to the material in bulletproof aircraft fuel tanks, instantly seals up punctures. Price: $21.95 for a standard-size (6.00 by 16) tire, slightly more than an ordinary tire & tube...
Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Prosper Mérimée's Carmen...
...that feed the Great Lakes, an evil invader was swarming last week by the slithering thousands: the sea lamprey. It looks like a mottled, bluish eel, but instead of a proper mouth it has a round sucker, like the rubber gadget that plumbers use to unplug drains. Inside the rim are rows of small teeth. When a hungry lamprey spies a fish, it darts to the fish's side. The sucker's teeth dig in and get a firm grip. Then the lamprey worries a hole in the fish with a file-like tongue and sucks its blood...
...engine-room philosopher. He liked to puzzle out the "meaning" as well as the mechanics of the Cape Harting's boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading Pip Magazine...
...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...