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...Alternate City and Pow Wow, two radical Swedish organizations, are conducting tours through the run-down parts of Stockholm. The tour vehicle: an old bus that runs on a form of "recycled" energy, methane gas emanating from horse manure. There are endless parades, one of which featured a large plastic whale to represent that overhunted species. Traffic barely creeps around the main conference halls in the old and the new Parliament buildings. Specially painted bicycles offer a quicker and more environmentally respectable way of getting about, and even Maurice Strong, the conference's secretary-general, took...
...CROC-and its weapon is ridicule. Last week CROC, which has more than 2,000 dues-paying members, announced its selection of the ten worst TV commercials of the past year and offered the corporations that sponsor them the CROC award: the Lemmy, a walnut plaque topped with a plastic lemon. CROC's list, in order of obnoxiousness...
...Nixon managed a colorful change of garb with only one gray suitcase and a plastic dress bag that she packed with 15 outfits, including a few that could be worn in any weather-a prime consideration for a woman traveling from Moscow to Teheran. Wherever she went, she was accompanied by wives of top Soviet officials, who are normally withdrawn and formal. They joined her for tea in the czarist family apartments in the Kremlin or posed gamely for incessant picture taking in front of statues in Red Square...
...excess supply of products, Carbide is searching for new "convenience technology" products to increase profits. Last year the company earned $158 million on $3 billion in revenues, or 15% less earnings than in 1969. Now Carbide is having great success with Seed Tape, a ribbon of poly-oxide plastic containing seeds. Using a tractor mounted with a reel of tape, a farmer can plant a crop uniformly. The seeds are evenly spaced, and the tape dissolves when sprayed with water. This eliminates the costly problem of uneven planting, which often causes crops to mature at an irregular rate and forces...
...offshoot of Carbide's farming ventures is a $3.50 toy, "Nature's Window." Marketed by Ideal Toy Corp., it is a kit of seeds and two plastic disks containing a chemical gel that retains water; in it, seeds begin to germinate within a couple of days. By year's end Carbide expects to sell 15 million disks to Ideal...