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...week to appear before the A.M.A. in Manhattan's Astor Hotel with a plain-spoken report on the recession ("Not all our economic troubles are over by any means") and some strong ideas about what business and labor could do to help the economy. He nominated a "whole kit and caboodle" of economic notions "for oblivion." Items...
Putty & Wax. Smeared with collodion, hung with plastic eye-bags, festooned with soup strainers, monocles, nippers, wax teeth, putty nebs, and anything else he could find in his makeup kit, Guinness gleefully paraded himself before the public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual...
...main studious interests at Harvard lay in the field of natural history. The most conspicuous things in his room were his rifle, his hunting kit, and his trophies of the chase. He always had live turtles and insects in his study, and Mark Sullivan recalls "the excitement caused by a particularly large turtle, sent by a friend from the southern seas, which got out of its box one night and started toward the bathroom in search of water...
...fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes with eight pages of instructions. Fairchild's transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be 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...
...election day Typhoon Kit howled across the northern Philippines, flooding villages, blocking roads, making thousands homeless. That night, sallow little President Carlos Garcia. 61, sat in a friend's home outside Manila, listening to the election returns and playing game after game of chess with an aide. When the radio reported that both the Liberals' Jose Yulo and the Progressives' Manuel Manahan were running ahead of him in Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that...