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...found countless new uses for old products. Thomas Edison in 1883 developed the world's most heat-resistant material-pyrolytic graphite-but it languished until researchers began to coat nose cones with it to resist high re-entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using the fuel cell to produce electricity aboard...
...While L.B.J. is trying so desperately to give an image of the Great White Knight or of Robin Hood creating a Sherwood Forest, I am reminded of another childhood tale, The Tar Baby. As the President's honey-toned, sugar-coated words come dripping from your pages or a radio, I find myself smothering an immense urge to warn all the little rabbits: "Don't be fooled, 'cause once you're stuck, you can't get unstuck...
Spiked Orange Juice. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Vincent P. Dole of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. Marie Nyswander of Manhattan General Hospital report that after considering other drugs as heroin substitutes, they hit upon methadone, a synthetic painkiller made from coal-tar extracts and marketed by Eli Lilly & Co. as Dolophine. A short course of methadone, the doctors knew, would ease the addict's first pangs of withdrawal from heroin. But they also knew that more than 80% of "cured" addicts promptly relapsed, and they wondered whether continued treatment with methadone would keep them off their "horse...
Meanwhile, a team of Atomic Energy Commission investigators continues to search debris in the now roofless CEA experimental hall for clues to the cause of the mysterious blast. Most of the equipment in the hall is coated with tar that dripped from the destroyed roof...
Died. George Allen Hancock, 89, California oilman and philanthropist, who inherited a 3,000-acre ranch in 1883, discovered the famed La Brea tar pits full of prehistoric remains while digging for oil (which he also found), made a fortune from his wells and the sale of property for what is now Los Angeles' Wilshire district, later gave $7,000,000 to the University of Southern California; of a heart attack; in Santa Maria, Calif...