NEW in SCIENCE


PLASTIC ARMOR, light and inexpensive, soon will be marketed by a Denver firm. It is laminated, can be cut, molded, bent or sawed, will stop bullets from the most powerful hand-guns at 25 yards. Material, yet unnamed, was invented to meet need for lighter armor for banking cars, but preliminary tests indicate possible military use. Plastic, above right, show dents from rifle bullets. Above left, new plastic-armored truck.