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...works, and there is no need to press the "destruct" button that sends a special radio signal racing after an errant missile and commands it to blow itself to bits. Yet suddenly the destruct system is activated, and the missile, possibly with a man atop it, explodes in a blossom of flame. The odds against such a mishap are small, but there is always a chance that an unintended signal perhaps from a badly adjusted ham radio, may destruct a missile that is flying properly or still on its launching...
Between the blossom and the fruit-time...
DuPont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Paul Whiteman, Count Basie, John Bubbles, Blossom Dearie, Dorothy London and Bill Hayes in a program of music from the '30s. Color...
Artificial flowers for allergic actresses are only one use of the U.S.'s flowering bogus-blossom bloom. Imports from Italy and Hong Kong, which manufacture the bulk of the world's fake-flower output, have jumped more than 20 times since 1955. It is now a $50 million-a-year business. Of poor quality in the past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some...
...Audie Staup. "Real flowers have a message; plastic ones don't." Adds Edward Goeppner, managing partner of San Francisco's huge Podesta-Baldocchi florist firm: "I sometimes ask a friend who has artificial flowers in his home if he has a stuffed dog, too." Paradoxically, the bogus-blossom boom has not yet cut severely into fresh-flower sales. Explains Goeppner: "Artificial flowers remind one to buy fresh flowers." Nevertheless, most flower shops hedge their bets by stocking the phonies. "We never call them artificial flowers," says one florist. "We call them 'permanent' flowers. It sounds better...