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Freeze Out? Until lately the company has hidden its U.S. light by operating in the U.S. through several affiliates. Recently, it merged three into one company, Consolidated Electronics, which starts out with $90 million in sales. In 1958 the Antitrust Division cited Philips among a dozen companies accused of freezing smaller U.S. TV manufacturers out of the Canadian market. Philips also has a suit against the U.S. charging that the AEC infringed Philips' Enrico Fermi patents taken out in long-ago 1934-39 and covering aspects of radioisotope production. Both suits are still pending...
...Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down in style rather than make the effort to maintain his status...
Biggest seller among the high-priced toys is a $30, bright-eyed, 3-ft.-tall plastic doll built like a three-year-old girl. The Ideal Toy Corp.'s Patti Play Pal has surprised even its makers, who shipped 500,000 dolls, found her copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other...
Science games and kits this year have become so sophisticated that they promise to baffle many a father. Science Materials Center offers a high-priced ($18.95) digital computer circuit and demonstrates the principle of atomic theory with a Dynatron electrostatic generator ($19.95). Among the popular-science sellers: the Porter Chemical Co.'s Biocraft Biology lab (list price: $20), which includes a frog, a perch, and a crayfish pickled in formaldehyde, and the Fleet Manufacturing Co.'s Chick-U-Bator, a two-egg plastic incubator. Other eye-catchers: Margarete Steiffs stuffed frogs, starfish and turtles for children...
...Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...