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...upside down, and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is like "trying to pour water into a corked bottle." The food must be retrieved-with fingers or, if necessary, with a pair of tweezers. After a year of testing in Florida, Eller and Haugen now recommend that a 9-in. plastic tweezer-like device called Choke Saver be kept at the ready in every restaurant. It has already been used by a city first-aid unit in Jacksonville, Fla., to save the lives of three victims. Using either his fingers or the Choke Saver, a clumsy amateur may bruise a victim...
...schools, but "Disney memorabilia"-the auction-room word for old Mickey Mouse watches-are moving from the camp boutiques to Parke-Bernet, and a New York art dealer named Bernard Danenberg has contracted with Walt Disney Productions to exhibit "eels" (the clear plastic sheets on which final animation drawings are made) from a new Disney cartoon, Robin Hood. This migration of Disney's iconography from masscult to the commercial fringes of "high" art (it happened to Norman Rockwell last year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English...
...material abundance, but now it may be on the verge of a comeback. At the height of its biggest boom, the U.S. seems almost to be based on an economy of scarcity. Shortages of an astounding variety of goods-fuel oil, nonferrous metals, wool, copper, cotton denims, vinyl records, plastic bottles, to name a few-are jacking up prices, interfering with production, and in some cases directly threatening American living standards...
...operate at capacity because it will not be able to get enough steel. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. is having to ration blue jeans to stores because of a scarcity of denim. In Los Angeles, American Chemical Corp. is having trouble getting enough raw materials to make plastic steering wheels, garden hoses and bottles. Capitol Records is trying to eke out supplies of vinyl by recycling old pressings...
Well, for one thing, the Me-Books so far prepared (by writers and artists who have wisely remained anonymous) are unattractive and vapid, a sad blend of box-top realism and the kind of plastic fantasy that Ronald McDonald might use to flog hamburgers. Moreover, unlike the stories that parents make up for their children, weaving in the details of private life, Me-Books are standardized...