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...have had a fleeting fancy that he had come to a banana republic or a Balkan kingdom. On hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards caparisoned in Graustarkian dress uniforms festooned with gold braid and nipped at the waist with black leather gunbelts. The black vinyl hats trimmed in gold suggested, by turns, a Ruritanian palace guard, a Belgian customs inspector, and Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow...
...cushion vehicle, the Spectra I, looks something like a funland bump car with a big fan on the back. It is powered by two engines-"one for up," in the words of MHV's promotional brochure, "and one for over." The first inflates Spectra's black vinyl skirts and forces air to seep out from under them, providing a cushion that suspends the craft above the surface; the second turns a propeller that thrusts the vehicle forward. Only 10 ft. long and 6 ft. wide, Spectra I weighs 450 Ibs. and costs between...
...notable feature in the new subway cars is the seating arrangement. Rather than sitting on plastic benches along both sides of the car, riders will relax in black vinyl-upholstered seats positioned in rows, much like those in regular trains...
...with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls slope as gently inward and upward as the lower slopes of Fujiyama. Halfway up, the solid earth gives way to an airy, translucent blister. Made of vinyl-coated fiber glass, this roof is laced by restraining cables and is supported entirely by a cushion of compressed...
After that accident in her Costa Mesa, Calif., home three years ago, Zayda Hanberry sought $36,000 in damages. Mrs. Hanberry, a retired dancer and movie bit player in her 60s, claimed that the heels of her new shoes were unsafe on vinyl floors. She not only sued the store that had sold her the shoes but also haled the wholesaler into court along with the Hearst Corp., which had given the shoes its Good Housekeeping Consumer's Guarantee Seal...