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Lady Allen got the idea on a 1945 visit to Copenhagen, where a Danish landscape architect had created an immensely popular playground by stocking a lot with building materials. It looked like a junkyard. Back home, she organized committees to take over old bomb sites and equip them in the same way. The kids thought that they were the best thing since ice cream. There are now 28 adventure playgrounds in England, and dozens more in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland...
...flight films, which TWA pioneered in 1961 As a result, TWA, plus Pakistan Inter national and Philippine airlines, which have also inaugurated movies, will keep the screens lit. A few other foreign lines may also introduce flicks, and Pan American has announced that it will equip its international flights with movies "as speedily as possible" to compete with...
...Stone, in his "Reply to the White Paper," tends to dismiss the discovery of a ship running arms on February 16, 1955 as being insignificant. This one ship had enough arms aboard her to re-equip approximately 15 per cent of the hard-core Vietcong force and enough ammunition for 20 full scale battalion actions lasting 24 hours each. One hesitates to think about the effect just ten such shiploads would have on the course of the Vietnam...
Congressional pressure is building for legislation that would compel automakers to equip new cars with a host of safety devices. Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff recently accused the auto industry of "dragging its feet in the field of safety measures," urged federal action. Congress has already authorized the General Services Administration to require, beginning in September 1967, 17 different safety items-from shock absorbing steering wheels to exhaust controls-on the 60,000 passenger vehicles it buys annually for the Government. Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson has introduced a bill that would require these same safety items...
Last week he returned from Bulgaria after closing a deal in which Krupp will equip and manage a $25 million synthetic fiber plant. Krupp also signed a contract recently to build a cement plant in Yugoslavia, has made a deal to sell diesel-powered fishing boats to Bulgaria, and is holding talks with the Polish, Hungarian and Rumanian governments about machine-tool and other plants...