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Breakproof Glass. A new line of glassware that is virtually breakproof-and if it does break, leaves no jagged edges-was put on sale by St.-Gobain of Paris at Gimbel Bros. The glass can be transferred from a subzero freezer to a 600° F. oven without cracking. Price of a twelve-piece tumbler...
...Thunderbird) is based on the fact that bare bosoms are almost as commonplace on Las Vegas nightclub stages as snake eyes on the craps tables. Desperate for something different, Producer Marty Hicks ("I myself don't approve of nudes") turned himself into a kind of subzero Minsky, decided to put nudes on ice. Finding good-looking girls who could skate was no trouble; finding skaters who would work seminude was somewhat more difficult; finding strippers who could also skate was next to impossible. The artistic integrity of the performance (if any) is saved by Leny Eversong, a Brazilian woman...
After one of the slowest starts in years, Christmas retail sales last week finished a surprising 4% ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that...
...Irradiated food, treated to kill any germ-producing material in most perishable foods, can be kept in a simple plastic bag, be preserved almost indefinitely without refrigeration; small air-insulated canteens that can keep food hot for 24 hours in subzero weather...
...firing it with kerosene torches at 4,000° F. They burned, drilled and blasted through two miles of solid rock. Partly to stabilize employment in Canada, contractors there kept up work at full speed through the winter months; they battled towering icefloes that threatened cofferdams, poured concrete in subzero weather, using jets of steam to keep it from freezing while it cured...