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When the National Science Foundation reported that young children could easily learn a lot about optics, Creative Playthings, Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., invented a tough, clear plastic bag which, filled with water, makes a big and satisfying magnifying glass. The same company also devised a three-legged stool whose height is equal to the focal length of a giant lens in the middle of the seat, a triangular wood box with three peephole lenses for viewing an object's change in size, and a merry-go-round of mirrors that reflect other mirrors and spy around corners...
...math toys is a two-piece jigsaw puzzle with a written number on one piece and a like number of horses or flowers painted on the other. Various counting boards and bars derive from the theory of sets used in computers. A small seesaw devised by Child Guidance Toys Inc. of New York City teaches addition and subtraction by using weighted numerals that hang from each end of the bar; only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular...
...fussy era in children's fashions, a day that called for ruffles and ribbons and starched puffed sleeves. Mrs. Eiseman preferred simple styles, fine fabrics and an elegance not of ornament but of workmanship. Marshall Field ordered $3,000 worth, sold out in a month. Florence Eiseman, Inc. was in business...
...long, thoughtful look into the computerized future, Simon Ramo, vice chairman of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., which is paid to think such thoughts, recently offered a vision of shopping as it may be in the next few decades. "Financial and accounting operations will be revolutionized by electronic information networks. Personal checks, and even currency and coin, will be delegated to a few rural areas or museums. When you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb print in front of the little machine will identify you, subtract from your account and put it into the seller's account...