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...Hiroshima Maidens" are 25 Japanese girls who were badly burned when the A-bomb fell on their city. Japanese plastic surgeons tried to restore their terribly defaced features, but scar tissue kept coming back. Partly under the sponsorship of Editor Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review, the girls were brought to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital last year for another try (TIME. Oct. 24, 1955). Their case was sometimes exploited politically in a horror campaign against U.S. use of atomic weapons, but the story quickly turned into one of medical triumph. Last week the first before-and-after...
...Scouts. If youngsters will work and hike and study to earn Scout merit badges, why can't they be induced to read for similar rewards? To each of its chapters, L.C.A. sends free buttons, pins, banners and certificates. After reading four books, a pupil gets a plastic membership button. Six more books bring a bronze-coated honor pin, and eight more bring the gold-plated life membership button. L.C.A. makes no attempt to dictate what books are to be read, lets local teachers and librarians improvise on the basic program as they wish. Examples of how local chapters work...
...with an electronic circuit built into the robot's head, put out by St. Louis' Jay V. Zimmerman Co., and remote-controlled buses and boats imported from Japan. "The Brain" can be preset to scoot about, turn and dodge on its preordered course, and fire its plastic missiles automatically. The buses and boats can be started, stopped and turned right or left by radio signals from more than 25 ft. away...
...Stanley Industries' "Bat-em Catch-em" ($10) an automatic pitcher, flings out plastic baseballs for more than 30 ft. for the young catcher or batter...
...rich, Marx has a "Space Satellite Launcher" ($3) that propels the plastic satellite skyward by a hand-crank mechanism; Irwin Corp. a "Skeet Shoot" ($4) that throws targets into the air, for a rifle loaded with darts; and Carrom Industries, a boxing game ($6.95) in which players manipulate toy fighters until the knockout. Of the traditional dolls, stuffed animals, soldiers, and games, there are hundreds of new variations. Madame Alexander has a new doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating...