Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that yowling about Laika gave me a pain. Do these dog lovers know that every day in our own grand and glorious country thousands of poor, worn-out old horses are driven up ramps to the slaughter-to provide food for their lousy pets...
...Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse, then suffers with a conscience-driven urge to tell all. "I want to be conscious of Benny Gazzara every minute," said Frankenheimer. "This is the most creative actor I've ever worked with...
...assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland marvels include an electronic robot ($8.95) that picks up pieces of metal by remote control and drops them onto a motor-driven conveyor belt; an electronic teletyper ($16.95) that prints messages sent from another room or house; a Pan American clipper ($15.95) that automatically starts and stops its four engines separately, revs up its motors before scooting along the ground...
...parents who are driven to ten-to-one martinis by the intricacies of their children's electric trains or erector sets are in for a new shock this year. Thanks to a boost from Sputnik and Muttnik, 1957 is the year of the "scientific" toy. As the buying season opened this week, retailers displayed an array of ingenious, intricate and fiendishly clever inventions. Mothers and fathers will have to grapple with the mysteries of boats, guns, radios and dolls operated by batteries, transistors, motors, sonar waves, even the rays of the sun. When the inevitable time comes for repairs...
...will 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...