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...Tin Drum, Grass...
...member Soviet diplomatic entourage to the U.S. is presently packed like caviar into a tin-can embassy-chancery on 16th Street in Washington. The Russians want out-and they propose to move to a 15-acre estate called Bonnie Brae in Chevy Chase, a residential area on the Maryland-District of Columbia line...
...investigating how long tissues survive after what is generally regarded as death. And adventurous surgeons are searching for other answers; some are confident that if natural organs are in too short supply, inventive men will devise artificial parts to replace nature's. The day may come when the Tin Woodman of Oz, who wanted someone to build him a working heart, may not seem like such a hopeless case after...
...businessman put it last week, "we are suffering from a misery of choice." Paperboard competes with plastics, steel with aluminum, thin tin with glass. The latest battle shaping up is between the new composition cans (commonly paperboard covered with foil) and traditional metal cans, which were already warring with glass. Fiber-foil cans cost 15% less than tin-plate cans, are lighter and usually can be opened with less effort. They have already moved into the motor oil can market once dominated by tin plate, and their makers confidently plan to use them for coffee, paint, beer and soft drinks...
...neutralists were running. On the dusty Plaine des Jarres airstrip, mothers breastfed dirty babies, and children sagged under the weight of parachute packs crammed with household belongings as they patiently waited for planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...