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...block of white homes. The economic pattern is just as complex; a block of huge columned mansions screened from view by heavy oaks, crepe myrtles, or magnolia trees may be followed by a block of pleasant middle class homes which boast a few palms or maybe a banana tree, followed again by a block of near-shacks with a scraggly clump of gladiolas growing outside...
...most ingenious new tool for riot control may be "instant banana peel," a powdery chemical introduced last week by Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America. Sprayed on the street and hosed with water, the chemical, which goes under the trade name "Rio-Trol," produces a surface ten times as slick as ice-and ten times as hard for rioters to walk on. Still in the early stage of experimentation by at least one company is a tranquilizer dart-a kind of instant Miltown-that could be fired from a distance, yet reduce any suspect to euphoric nonviolence...
Most of the time, though, he steals from Colgate-smile comedies. His sexy red bed--television, music, and massage at the flick of a switch--comes straight out of The Yum Yum Tree. In both movies, Jack Lemmon and Sellers play second banana to mechanical gadgets...
BLACK COMEDY is not a play about civil rights or a comedy of black humor. Its tale of what happened when the lights went out is as unsubtle and vaudevillian as a slip on a banana peel or a pie in the face-and just as much...
...sales gain will result from what the company describes as "the revolution of convenience." From 25 factories in 19 states, Maryland Cup turns out containers for everything from coffee to carry-out chop suey, and its growing plastics division ranges from disposable glasses for airline drinkers to "banana boats" for banana-split fanciers...