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...were as notable as the winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space
...exhibition "Northern Renaissance Art," comprising the best of Harvard's fifteenth and sixteenth century German and Flemish works, as well as several important loans, will be on view February 13 to April 1 at the Busch-Reisinger Museum...
...tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created only moments before it is put into a patient, and the doctor can scan its internal path while it is most active; yet within 24 hours, it will have decayed to an undangerous one-sixteenth of its former self. Since patients are far safer, they can take many more such tests, thus vastly multiplying the data with which doctors can find out what is wrong and perhaps even...
...Signs. Led by Goodrich and Goodyear, tiremakers this fall will introduce "the wear bar," a device adapted from aircraft tires, which have a red cord imbedded in the rubber to show when the tread is becoming worn. In auto tires, small portions of the tread will be cut one-sixteenth of an inch less deep than the rest of the grooves, and will show up as bald spots when the tire needs replacing...
...London Royal College of Art Graduate Peter Murdoch, is now on sale at Bloomingdale's, Neiman-Marcus and some 20 specialty shops. Made by the International Paper Co., the cylindrical-shaped chair consists of five layers of paper coated with a thin layer of plastic, is only one-sixteenth of an inch thick and weighs an incredibly light 3 Ibs. The chair will support up to 500 Ibs. Designer Murdoch claims that it is almost impossible to break. The throw-away price...