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...Soaky"-several pennies worth of bubble bath in a cartoon-character plastic toy container, retailing altogether for 690. "Kids wield a lot of influence in the choice of a toothpaste," adds an executive of Lever Bros., whose Stripe appeals to the whole household through the children's interest in color and flavor...
...games nexus devoted to space exploration. It has the Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet-passengers enter the rocket, fasten seat belts, then blast off with engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots conjure up a journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that...
...Liggett & Myers has launched Lark with a "3-piece Keith filter," and Brown & Williamson is test-marketing Breeze filters with menthol and a "touch" of clove. American Tobacco has brought out menthol Montclair; last week Philip Morris started selling nationally its filter menthol Paxton, which comes in a thin plastic "humidor" case. Launching each new brand costs some $10 million, but most of them seem to burn out quickly nowadays. Among the recent failures: R. J. Reynolds' Brandon, Philip Morris' Commander, American Tobacco's menthol Riviera, Brown & Williamson's Kentucky Kings...
...Some of the pieces will be split apart and the breaks joined later. Blocks that are weak will be held together by bolts. Cranes will lift them one by one and deposit them gently on beds of sand on top of the cliff, where they will be wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect their surfaces. When the lowest of the blocks arrive, they will be placed on a concrete foundation. The temple will be reassembled as accurately as possible and surrounded by a natural-looking wall of local sandstone...
...wheelchair. Outside, on a balcony, a college girl dressed in death-wish black and a free-form welder's helmet slithered through snail and snake dances, while on another balcony, a pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly sipped from a white teacup that trailed a blue silk ribbon down through the leaves. Painted Coke bottles and sculpture that looked like tiny traffic accidents bloomed...