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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground covered by dirt to the kind of steel-and-concrete thing you could put up in your backyard." Cost for a system of fallout shelters would run upwards of $20 billion (priced singly, according to one CDA man, "at about the cost of a medium-priced car...
...Outsiders. Though both Moroccan and Tunisian delegates summoned them separately to conferences, the Algerians were invited to none of the official banquets or meetings. They waited outside the palace in a car for the final communiqué. When it was ready, Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan himself went out to hand it to them before it was distributed to the press. The communiqué announced that Bourguiba and the King, scheduled to fly to the U.S. this week to visit President Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had agreed to put their good offices at the "disposal of France...
...projectile-spewing toys. Ideal Toy Corp. is ready for the Space Age with a truck-mounted satellite launcher ($4.98) and a skysweeper ($7.98) that throws a plane's image onto a wall, then fires suction-cup projectiles at it. Gilbert's train sets have a rocket launcher car ($10.29) that shoots a missile from the tracks, and Kusan-Auburn Inc.'s six-car atomic train ($39.95) automatically unleashes two missiles while the train is in motion...
...still have to deal with mechanized wonders, such as Knickerbocker's battery-powered organ ($12.95), on which a child can learn to play such simple tunes as Oh! Susanna, Noel and Home, Sweet Home. This year's line of autos includes Louis Marx's battery-driven car ($23.95) which can be ridden by children from i^ to six, and Ideal's clear-plastic model ($14.95), complete with electrical and differential systems, operating pistons and fan belt-130 parts in all for a parent to help assemble. For the medieval set, there is a pair of remote...
Crash-Proof Meter. A parking meter that swivels on a ball-joint base when hit by a car was developed by Marwin Products of Spokane...