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...circuits and powered by a hearing-aid battery. A small Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They can augment conversation. When a patron at the Phoenix Playboy Club asked a Bunny why the red light on her traffic-signal pendant, suspended above an intersection, was blinking, she sweetly responded: "Red means stop. Proceed with caution...
...Garagiola, baseball's answer to Myron Cohen, described the Reds most aptly when he said, "They tie a string to every gift. You go after it and they pull it away from you." The boys from Cincinnati were no different last night, playing Santa Claus in double-knits for the first five innings...
...that the largest oats- and barley-producing states are bedeviled by drought. Most agricultural counties in the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota are critically dry; many have been declared disaster areas. The situation is so bad for farmers, says Agronomist Howard Wilkins of North Dakota State University, that "Santa Claus isn't going to come this year...
Tart and Treacle. The gibes were not always unfriendly though. A generation of British children grew up believing that Santa Claus had an American accent and called all girls Honey. There were more than 70,000 wartime Anglo-American marriages, and the great majority appear to have fared well...
...titles suggest that it won't be a fruitless vigil. After finishing Femme, she will film The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, a murder mystery featuring Peter Fonda, Michael York and Orson Welles. Later she will star in Madame Bovary, which will be directed by Hugo Claus, 47, the father of her son Arthur, 15 months. "It's another costume picture," says Sylvia, beginning to sound like a period piece herself. "I now love costume pictures...