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Whistle Round the Bend. Makers of toy trains expect to satisfy only one-half of the tremendous demand. Model railroads have lighter (plastic) and longer trains, remote-control electronic systems that switch and disconnect cars, station masters that announce arrivals, electronically operated cranes, locomotives that whistle, chuff, and trail real smoke...
Dolls, the toy trade's staple, will have their biggest year yet, with estimated sales of $40,000,000. Items: a new version of the famed Kewpie doll, now making a successful comeback with close to a million orders so far; a doll with the prewar plastic skin; a freer flowing version of the rubber Dydee doll, a wartime casualty...
...beak into a glass of water. (The secret: a reaction between the water and chemicals inside the bird.) ¶ The Skweez-Me Boxers, a couple of gangling woodenheads who fight and flop in their little wooden ring through manipulation of the base. ¶ A dart game in which plastic bombs are dropped when trigger releases in model planes are hit. ¶ A wind-up car that turns corners, reverses, and parks itself...
Besides doing the carpentry, the wiring, the painting, the plumbing, and the heating work on the units, the Federal Public Housing Authority throws in with each home a jade-green plastic shower curtain, an ice-box, a porcellain towel rack, an aluminum mailbox, and a two-plate electric stove complete with oven. Everything else is up to the individual, but the University has a limited amount of furniture available for rental...
There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...