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...listed 30,000 items. Appropriately enough, the biggest section (71 pages) is for toys. Among the new ones: a "Tintair Glamor Girl Doll," whose blonde hair can be dyed two different colors and washed out again ($11.45); a 145-piece army training center, complete with 100 plastic soldiers and a swivel chair in the headquarters building for the top brass...
...Payson, toy manufacturer of Hackensack, N.J., announced that her firm would stop making penny banks, concentrate on toy banks that took coins of higher mintage. These days, she said, "most children do not show much appreciation for anything less than a dime." ¶ The bug shield-that plastic gadget on the snouts of innumerable cars, designed to deflect bugs (and snow) from the windshield-received a legal setback. Connecticut banned it on the ground that it obstructed the driver's view of the road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made...
Over hilly Sudetenland and the spires of Prague, thousands of white paper leaflets fluttered down. Each night for four nights 2,000 plastic balloons spilled out 2,000,000 leaflets. That was the way the people of Red Czechoslovakia got the real story last week of how Locomotive Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka raced his Prague-Asch "freedom train" across the Czech border into Germany (TIME, Sept...
...football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...
...Plastic Cleaners. To get around metal shortages, Lewyt Corp. this week starts production on plastic vacuum cleaners, which will be quieter, stronger, and four Ibs. lighter than present metal models...