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...Disneyland, they are boffo as never before-perhaps because restless audiences, tired of passively watching so much canned and channeled entertainment, are eager for such tangible Freedomland features as an electromagnetic dragon, real buffalo grazing the prairies, honest Indians taking passengers for rides in birchbark Chippewa war canoes (the birch bark is actually Fiberglas, and the Chippewas are mainly Cherokees, recruited by Manhattan Cherokee Arthur Junaluska, the ranking redskin in New York). Freedomland's immigration fee is $1 (less for children), and 50^ is the top price for the individual attractions, which include...
Playing Square. In Denver, police jailed two beatniks after they jeopardized their social standing by furnishing their "pad" with eight $50 cushions, two birch doors (for coffee tables) and two vacuum cleaners-all stolen...
...William Green had indulgently introduced him as "the next Senator from Minnesota" at a recent A.F.L. convention. The fact that Minnesota had not elected a Democrat to the Senate for 90 years discouraged him not at all. That fall he drove 31,000 miles through the Minnesota birch lands, mountains and lake country, attended 500 meetings, lost 19 Ibs., and beat Joe Ball by 243,693 votes...
Wooden Wallpaper. A wallpaper with a .003-in. covering of grained and stained walnut, birch or cherry wood was put on sale by Chicago's Denst & Soderlund Associates, Inc. The paper, made in West Germany, comes in rolls, or in squares for parquet effect on walls. Price...
...trial to nearly everyone, his parents included. Born in 1847 in Milan, "Ohio, the infant Thomas had a head so abnormally large that the family feared he might be "defective." His cantankerous, freethinking father tried to beat sense into young Tom with a birch switch that was used so often the bark was worn off. His mother was more hopeful, and it was her reading to him from a scientific primer that started Edison on a lifetime of experimentation...