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...looks like an ordinary beanbag, orange, pink or candy-striped. But when a concealed button is tapped, a battery-operated three-inch plastic disk turns on, and there is no turning off the heehaws for half a minute. "We sell happiness," says Sammy Kay, vice president of the Gund Manufacturing Co. and chief purveyor of the laughing bag, a brand of happiness that costs about $5. Gund has been putting laughing boxes inside stuffed animals since 1954, but it wasn't until this year that the company sent them out to go it alone. "Our first buyers," Kay reports...
...them has spread from the marketplace to the courts. NCR, which claims that it developed the micro method first, has filed a patent-infringement suit against 3M. Minnesota Mining extracts a product's aromatic oils to duplicate the product's scent. The essences are enclosed in microscopic plastic bubbles, a million to a square inch. The capsules are coated on a paper strip, which is cut to size and affixed to each advertisement. A fingernail scratch ruptures the bubbles and releases the fragrance. NCR's technique allows fragrances to be applied directly to published ads, eliminating...
...despite the self-indulgence of about half the film, Lion's Love is remarkable for several things: its depiction of Southern California's plastic sunniness; it's screamingly hilarious treatment of political assassination (sick, you say?); its exploitation of the considerable assets of Viva, who is a freaky latter-day Jean Arthur; and its endearing. cozy ambiance throughout...
...teeters on the edge of a different fear: What if all that death and maiming were to amount to little or nothing, if so much sacrifice made no real difference to Southeast Asia, to the containment of Communism? American sons keep coming homeward in zippered plastic body bags, and a sizable percentage of Americans tell the pollsters that they believe Viet Nam will eventually turn Communist in any case...
...enthroned research and development and staked its future on it: $255 million was spent on it last year. The company has 17 technically proven but so far unmarketed "new ventures" in process. Some are secret, but others include an office copier that uses ordinary paper, a range of plastic building materials, and a new desalination process. Speaking about the copier, Everett B. Yelton, director of the development department, says: "We may just be too late. Perhaps we should have moved faster...