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...theater commercials seen anywhere. Joop (pronounced yoop) supplies a few Michigan and California stations with beer commercials (Goebel Brewing Co.) which are so attractive that one station has actually received requests to "play it again." Most of Joop's commercials run about 20 seconds, feature remarkably lifelike, plastic puppets moving stringlessly, smoothly and expressively through slapdash roles. Only near the end of the "puppetoon" does the audience get the well-cushioned plug...
There is a "flying-saucer gun" which shoots whirling plastic disks high in the air ($1); a noiseless "space ray gun" of plastic molded around a flashlight...
...speech of every incoming Freshman, single out those with real speech deficiencies, and correct them. Such an idea is not radical--in fact it corresponds to the University's special remedial writing and reading program. Nor is it overly expensive, since it takes no more than a few more plastic recording reels and some man hours...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, just a few feet away on Acheson's left, listened intently on the new plastic earphones that look like a hearing aid and scribbled endlessly, his face impassive. Once, he leaned over to the Ukrainian delegate, jutted out his chin and laughed...
Everything is ready at Walcott's Cambridge home to nurse the expected eggs--including individual plastic containers and three bushels of frozen mulberry leaves, stolen from a local backyard...